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Irish First Names
Aidan [Aodhan] (m) 'little fire'.
St Aidan (died 651), a monk at lona who became bishop of Lindisfarne, is perhaps the most famous bearer of this name. It was quite common in Ireland in the eighth and ninth centuries and it is still used today. Mogue is a variant. It has even been employed as a feminine name, but Edana is the more usual feminine form.
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