Fintan

Finntan, Fintaan, Fionntan, Finntain (genitive)
[proto-Celtic vindo-senos, white ancient (?); vindo-tenos, white fire (?)]

Name borne by numerous figures in early Ireland, secular and ecclesiastical, including seventy-four saints and pseudo-saints and dozens of names cited in genealogies and pedigrees. The best-known Fintan, usually cited without patronymic, is Fintan mac Bóchra.

Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish
Pronounced: FIN-tan  

Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Fionntán, which possibly means either "white fire" or "white bull" in Gaelic. This was the name of many Irish saints.