Etymology

Fenlon

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Ó Fionnaláin
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Fionnaláin“descendant of Fionnalán”
  2. English todayFenlon

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fionnaláin (“descendant of Fionnalán”), a hypocoristic form of fionn (“fair, white”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.