Birsay wrote:
So I wonder, how in the world did that website come up with "Kyna"? In various searches, the name is rare, but there are people out there named Kyna, pronounced Kee-na. I wonder, if it's based on something thought to be Irish, how exactly did it come about?
I've managed to find the name Kyna in a baby-name book at home, but curiously, it doesn't provide an Irish language equivalent.
It suggests that "Kyna seems to be a modern name based on Gaelic
cion, 'love, affection', or on
cíoná, 'best, champion, star ['chief, leader'].
We've alreaady discussed the difficulty with
cion.
I couldn't find Cíona as a given name (but could work nicely), but managed to come across several examples of Cíona (including Cíona Ní Dhálaigh, Mayor of Dublin). However, I can't find an explanation for the name Cíona, which best fits the transliteration Kyna, so its difficult to say whether Kyna derives from Kyna, or vice versa.
Birsay wrote:
I'm also seeing Kyna supposedly meaning wise or intelligent. Perhaps it comes from a different source than cion?
That meaning would suggest that it comes from Cian (my own name)/ Cianán. If this is the case, I wonder if Kyna is modeled on the name Ciara, i.e. Ciarán > Ciara , Cianán > Ciana > Kyna.
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