Don (given name)

Don

Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	English, Irish
Origin
Word/name	Donald
Meaning	brown, chief, noble
Other names
Variant form(s)	Donn
Pet form(s)	Donnie, Donny

Don is a masculine given name in the Irish language, as well as a short form of two masculine given names in the English language. The Irish name is derived from the Irish donn; the name can either mean "brown", or "chief", "noble". The Irish name is a variant spelling of Donn . The English name is unrelated to the Irish name; this name is a short form of the given name Donald or Donovan. Pet forms of this English name include Donnie and Donny. ^[1]

Don can also be a surname, also derived from "brown".^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• List of people named Donald
• All pages with titles beginning with Don

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 78, ISBN   978-0-19-861060-1