| [ syll. cil-lian, ci-lli-an ] The boy name Cillian has its origins in the Celtic language, and it is used largely in French and Irish. Derived from ceallach which means 'war, strife' ; ceall which means 'church, monastery'. An old form of the name is the Celtic and Old Irish Ceallach. The first name was originally a Gaelic nickname from the element 'ceallach' or 'ceall'. It was borne by various early Irish saints, including the 7th century Saint Cillian who evangelized Franconia in Germany; he was martyred at Würzburg, where a cathedral was built in honor of him. The name is often Anglicized as Killian. Variant forms of the name include the Irish Cillín, the English, German, and Irish Kilian, the English, German, and Irish Killian, and the English and German Kylian. Cillian is seldom used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2007, among the group of boy names directly related to Cillian, the English, German, and Irish Killian was the most frequently used. Baby names that sound like Cillian include the Irish Cillín, the Arabic Salim, the Turkish Selim, the Hebrew Shlomo, the Irish and Scottish Solamh, the Italian and Spanish Celino, the Hungarian Salamon, the Italian Salamone, the Finnish, German, and Slavic Salomon, the Italian Silino, the English, Hebrew, Romanian, and Slavic Solomon, the Arabic Sulaiman, the Arabic Sulayman, the Arabic and Turkish Süleyman, and the Italian Salomone.
A famous person named Cillian is Cillian Murphy, Actor, born 25 May 1976, Douglas, Cork, Ireland. |