Entry № 3223 · Celtic origin

Fand Fand — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"An Otherworld goddess"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "an otherworld goddess".

Fand is a goddess of the Irish Otherworld, radiant and sea-linked, whose name is glossed as a pearl of beauty.

Brief and bright, it shimmers with the magic of the old tales.

An Otherworld goddess — a name from Celtic myth.

The name in its native script.

Fand
Transliteration
Fand
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Fand stands.

Fand does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Fands before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Fand.

The number behind Fand.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fand reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.