Given name
Tadg
“poet, storyteller”
Tadg is a masculine given name from Proto-Celtic, meaning “poet, storyteller.” It is used in Middle Irish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Celtic *tazgos (“poet, storyteller”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Tadg’s family of names
In Middle Irish usage, Tadg has a later derivative in Taðkr.
The ring: across languages.
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Tadg, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Mctighe
“son of the poet”
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Strahan
“a poet; a minstrel”
>99% boys
Mctague
“son of the poet”
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McBeth
“the son of Beth”
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Mctigue
“son of the poet”
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Cedric
Cedric has an unusually traceable literary beginning: Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.
>99% boys
Derval
“one's true desire; a poet's daughter”
91% boys · 9% girls
Heeney
“God is gracious”
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