Finnegan name - Meaning of Finnegan

Finnegan name - Meaning of Finnegan

Gender

Masculine

Lucky Number

7

Usage

Irish, English (Modern), Gaelic

Pronounced

FIN-ə-gən

Finnegan Meaning

From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Fionnagáin meaning 'descendent of Fionnagán'. The name Fionnagán is a diminutive of Fionn. This was the name of a character in James Joyce's novel 'Finnegans Wake' (1939), the title of which was based on a 19th-century Irish ballad called 'Finnegan's Wake'. Finnegan is an anglicized version of the name 'O Fionnagain'. The 'O' means 'son of', and the name 'Fionnagan' itself is a derivative of 'Fionn', which means 'a fair haired person'.