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Finnegan

Finnegan proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Finnegan

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.

Forms of Finnegan

alternative formFinigan
alternative formFinnigan

Origin of Finnegan

Borrowed from Irish Ó Fionnagáin (“descendant of Fionnagán”). Fionnagán is a given name that descends from Old Irish Finnacán, which is typically anglicised as Finnegan itself.

Questions about Finnegan

What does Finnegan mean?
Finnegan means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Finnegan?
Finnegan is a proper noun.

Words near Finnegan in the dictionary

  1. Finndians
  2. finne
  3. Finneas
  4. finned
  5. finned fish
  6. Finnegan
  7. Finneghan
  8. Finnell
  9. Finnells
  10. finnemanite
  11. finner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Finnegan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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