When Brian James Ryan was born on 16 July 1966, in Rockaway Peninsula, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, his father, Charles Patrick Ryan, was 43 and his mother, Mary Ellen Haggerty, was 40. He died on 18 June 1976, at the age of 9.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, John Patrick, Dermot, Liam, Paddy, Donovan, Eamon, Eamonn, Kieran, Parnell, Aileen, Brennan.
Irish: shortened form of O'Ryan , an Anglicized form of Ó Riaghain (modern Irish Ó Riain) ‘descendant of Riaghan’, a personal name probably based on the word rí ‘king’. Ryan is one of the commonest surnames in Ireland, though there has been considerable confusion with Regan .
Irish: shortened from Mulryan (Ó Maoilriaghain).
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