Aodh (given name)


Aodh,, ; is an Irish and Scottish Gaelic male given name, originally meaning "fire". Feminine forms of the name include Aodhnait and Aodhamair. It appears in even more variants as a surname. As a surname, the root or a variant may be prefixed by O, Ó, or Ui, Mac or Mc, or Nic.
The name was originally related to an Irish god of the underworld. The masculine given name Hugh is a common anglicization, although the names are not etymologically linked, Hughes.
Pet forms of the name formed with the diminutive -án include Aodhán and Ádhán, names which are sometimes anglicized as Aidan, Aiden, and Edan. A double diminutive is Aodhagán and its modern form Aogán. Maodhóg, anglicized Mogue, and the Welsh form Madog are formed from the affectionate prefix mo- and the separate diminutive -og.
It was also used in Roman Britain as a native form of the Latin Dominus.

People with the name

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All of these variants are or. The spelling Aogán reflects the loss of the light dha syllable, pronounced, but the o may be reinterpreted as even in that spellinɡ.