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- Irish · derived fromÓ Ceanndubháin“descendant of Ceanndubhán”
- English todayCanavan
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ceanndubháin (“descendant of Ceanndubhán”), a personal name composed of the elements ceann (“head”), dubh (“black”) and the diminutive suffix -án.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.