Finglas

English

Etymology

Anglicized form of Irish Fionnghlas, from fionn (“fair; clear”) + glas (“rivulet, stream”).

Proper noun

Finglas (countable and uncountable, plural Finglases)

1. A suburb of Dublin, Ireland.
2. A habitational surname from Irish.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Finglas is the 1610^th most common surname in Ireland, belonging to 342 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Finglas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 575.