Fintan

Fintan is a boy's baby name of Irish origin, from the Old Irish Findtán, composed of find (white, bright) and a diminutive suffix, meaning 'little bright one' or 'white fire' — the name of a legendary figure in Irish mythology who survived the biblical flood as a salmon.

With over 419 recorded births, Fintan is used in Irish and Irish-American communities as a name with deep mythological roots. In Irish mythology, Fintan mac Bóchra was the only survivor of the great flood in Ireland — he lived for thousands of years in the form of a salmon, an eagle, and a hawk, witnessing all of Irish history before finally dying in the Christian era. He is the personification of Irish ancestral memory itself. As a given name, Fintan carries that extraordinary weight of ancient knowledge and survival.