First name origin & meaning: Gaelic: Little wolf Last name origins & meanings:
- Irish: variant of Whelan.
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Fialáin ‘descendant of Fialán’, a personal
name representing a diminutive of Fial, meaning ‘generous’,
‘modest’, ‘honorable’. This is the surname of a bardic family in
northern Ireland.
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