Given name & surname
Behan
“descendant of Beachán”
Behan is a surname from Irish. It is used in English and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Behan goes back to Irish Ó Beacháin, meaning “descendant of Beachán.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó Beacháin (“descendant of Beachán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Behan’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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