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Names starting with C

Explore names that begin with C, with notes on the meaning and history of each name.

Researched from sources, checked in a separate review, with uncertainty stated plainly.

Cormac.

  1. Cormac

    Boy

    Cormac has a place in Irish legend. Cormac mac Airt is a high king in Irish legend. Outside the stories, Cormac is used as a given name in both Irish and English.

    Accounts of Cormac mac Airt belong to legend; dates given for his reign are uncertain.

    An Irish name with an unsettled meaning. Cormac comes through Old Irish Cormac or Corbmac. Its final element means “son”; proposed first elements include “chariot” or “wagon”, and “defilement” or “corruption”.

    These are alternative proposals, not established translations. Woulfe also records “son of Corb”.

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