Etain
loc · Latin script
Meaning: In legend, the lover of the fairy man Midir; popularized by The Immortal Hour (1914)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Etain is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
In legend, the lover of the fairy man Midir; popularized by The Immortal Hour (1914).
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Etain counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 5 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3 | — | 38 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | — | 10 |
| IE Ireland | — | listed | — | 35 |
| ES Spain | — | listed | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the irish-first-names-coghlan-1985 register; the spanish-baby-names-haro-2005 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Etain is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Traditional Irish Gaelic name, sometimes identified as that of the ancient Celtic sun goddess, said to be derived from ét ‘jealousy’. 83
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
According to Irish legend, Etain was the lover of the fairy man, Midir. Aideen is a variant. The name was probably made popular by The Immortal Hour (1914), an opera by Rutland Boughton based on the legend.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, Irish; shining bright
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pascal Etainb. 1966FRFrench politician
- Bruno Etainb. 1972FRresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Etain mean, and where does it come from?
- In legend, the lover of the fairy man Midir; popularized by The Immortal Hour (1914). Recorded by Irish first names.
- In which country does Etain have the most bearers?
- Etain is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Etain?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/etainThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Etain”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.