Cináed: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Cináed – Origin: Pictish – Gender: Boy


Cináed is a Pictish boy's name. It appears in our list of 150+ Scottish Baby Boy Names With Rugged Celtic Character.

Meaning & Origin of Cináed

Origin: Pictish.

A common claim: "born of fire" Actually: Cináed is often explained as "born of fire," but that reading is probably a later folk explanation — the name more likely descends from an untranslated Pictish original.

Source: Wiktionary.

Popularity of Cináed

Cináed doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

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