Explore: Gaulish Names

Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish

with Gaulish Lugus Many surnames of Gaelic origin in Ireland and the other Celtic nations derive from ancestors' names, nicknames, or descriptive names. In

new name based on some attribute of the person (e.g. Daniel Santbech became Noviomagus, possibly from the Latin (actually Latinised Gaulish) name for

with Gaulish names often granted their children Roman names: the Gallo-Roman man Litumari provided his son with the Latin name Silvanus and the Gaulish man

Insular sources, as well as the prominence of "Lug(u)-" elements in Gaulish place-names. A prominent cult to Mercury in Roman Gaul may provide more evidence

attributed with certainty to the Gaulish strand)»; «Predial place names with -acum likely of Gallo-Latin origin»; «derived from names of Celtic origin with installations

a common French male given name of uncertain origin, either from Celtic as in the Gaulish name Ivo (Iuo) and compound names Ivorix (Iuo-rigi or Iue-ricci)

Star Names, which has been publishing a "List of IAU-approved Star Names" since 2016. As of August 2025, the list included a total of 509 proper names of

-catu- ('combat, battle'). Peter E. Busse and John T. Koch note that Gaulish names that entered Latin through the Etruscan language often show this confusion

independently. The name Rosmerta is Gaulish, and is analysed as ro-smert-a. Smert means "provider" or "carer" and is also found in other Gaulish names such as Ad-smerio