Given name
Fearghal
Fearghal is a masculine given name from Old Irish. It is used in Irish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Irish Fergal; its root is Proto-Indo-European *ǵews-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fearghal’s family of names
In Irish usage, Fearghal continues an earlier form in Fergal. Fearghal has an English adaptation in Fergal.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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