Given name
Odhrán
“dun”
Odhrán is a masculine given name from Old Irish. It is used in Irish.
Original IrishOḋrán
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Irish Odrán, built from Irish odhar (“dun”) + -án.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Odhrán’s family of names
In Irish usage, Odhrán shares a linguistic root with the English form Oran. In Irish usage, Odhrán has a related form in Oḋrán.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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