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Fingal

Gender: M Popularity: this week. Origin of Fingal: Gaelic Meaning of Fingal: "fair stranger"

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Originally a nickname for Viking invaders, it gained fresh impetus in the 18th century when James Macpherson made Fingal the central character in his Ossianic poems. An offbeat addition to the Fin- family of names.

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