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Origin of the name RONAN.
Etymology of the
name RONAN.
Meaning of the baby name RONAN.
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RONAN. Scottish
and Irish (Rónán) name meaning "a seal, or sea-calf," from Gaelic rín.
Rona may
be a feminine form. Also see Moronog.
Usage: America, Australia, England, France, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales.
Rónán Patrick John Keating, an Irish musician, singer
and songwriter. Ronan Vibert, a Welsh actor. Ronan Pensec, a
former French professional road bicycle racer. Ronan Farrow, an American human rights activist and
freelance journalist. (Wiki)
RONA, an island off Lewis, and
RONA or RONAY, an island in the Sound of Skye (both called Rögney
in O.N.), bear the name of St. Ronan, a bishop who died in 737, from whom
Sir Walter Scott invented the name St. Ronan's Well. (Names and Their
Histories, Taylor, 1896)
... Rín
means a seal or sea-calf in Gaelic. Ronan is the derivative.
He is a hero whose death is lamented in the Ossianic poetry, and his
name was afterwards borne by a large number of Irish and Scottish
saints, from whom came Ronan in Scotland, Ronayne
in Ireland, once with the feminine Ronat... (History of Christian Names,
Yonge, 1884).
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