Callan

Girl name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cathaláin ‘descendant of Cathalán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of Cathal (see Cahill).
• Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ailin, a patronymic from an old Gaelic personal name derived from ail ‘rock’.
• Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cailin ‘son of Cailin’ (see Collin).

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