Girl name origins & meanings
- Gaelic : Little king
Boy name origins & meanings
- Gaelic : Little king
Family name origins & meanings
- Irish : simplified form of Mulryan.
- Irish : reduced form of O’Ryan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Riagháin (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of Rian’; Ó Maoilriain ‘descendant of Maoilriaghain’, or Ó Ruaidhín ‘descendant of the little red one’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland; there has been considerable confusion with Regan.
- Americanized spelling of German Rein.