Sullivan (male)

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Registered: 02-11-2007
Sullivan (male)
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Tue, 02-13-2007 - 7:44pm

Sullivan (male)



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Registered: 09-11-2004
In reply to: nik12345
Wed, 02-14-2007 - 7:26pm

i think this is a GREAT name. i have never heard it before as a fn. also,

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Registered: 08-01-2003
In reply to: nik12345
Thu, 02-15-2007 - 1:00pm
are no surnames safe from being turned into first names??
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Registered: 09-29-2005
In reply to: nik12345
Thu, 02-15-2007 - 7:56pm

Technically, most Celtic surnames started out as given names (often based on descriptives of the person/clan themselves), not vice versa.

Sullivan is an Anglicized form of Súileabhán or Suilaibi and means "little dark eye" or "keen-eyed" in Irish. It started being used as a surname for families descended from someone with this given name, but that doesn't mean it suddenly cannot be used as a first name, as it forever has been.

It can't be "turned into" a first name ... it's always been one. LOL


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