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Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne. During the "Irish revival", some Irish ...
Maggie Wahlgren, a character on The Loud House; Maggie Walsh, on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Maggie, a main character in the American comic strip Bringing Up Father; Maggie, the Cardcaptors name for the Cardcaptor Sakura character Maki Matsumoto; Maggie, the human protagonist of the Canadian animated TV series Maggie and the ...
The girl’s name Fiadh (Fee-ah) is perhaps “the biggest Irish name of the 21st century,” says Ó Séaghdha. It was the second most popular girl’s name in Ireland in 2023, after Grace.
A first name may be modified by an adjective to distinguish its bearer from other people with the same name. Mór ("big") and Óg ("young") are used to distinguish parent and child, like "senior" and "junior" are used in English, but are placed between the given name and the surname, e.g. Seán Óg Ó Súilleabháin corresponds to "John O'Sullivan Jr." (anglicised surnames often omit O ...
Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents are also listed. See also: List of alternative country names. Please format entries as follows: for languages written in the Latin alphabet, write "Name (language)", for example, "Afeganistão (Portuguese
Margaret is a feminine given name, which means "pearl".It is of Latin origin, via Ancient Greek and ultimately from Old Iranian. [1] It has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages.
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate , in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
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