Dairine - (daw-REE-ne) from Old Irish daire "fruitful" or "fertile". The name of a legendary princess of Tara.

Dallas - "wise". Dallys, Dalishya, Dalyce.

Damhnait - (DEV-nat) "poet" or "fawn". Devnet, Downet, Dymphna.

Dana - "from Denmark"; also a version of the goddess Danu.

Darby - from the word meaning "free".

Darcy - "dark"; from French d'Arcy, meaning "from Arcy".

Daron - from the word meaning "great". Feminine version of Darren. Daryn, Daronica, Darnelle.

Davan - form of David, "beloved".

Dealla - (DAWL-la) Name of a legendary early invader of Ireland, a companion of the woman leader Cessair.

Dearbh�il - (DER-vahl) from Old Irish name Derbail, may mean "daughter of Fal (Ireland)" or "daughter of a poet"; der "daughter" + Fal, an ancient name for Ireland; may also mean "true desire". Modern Irish Dearbh�il, also written Dervla (DAYR-vla), Dervil (Der-uh-vil).

Dechtire - (deck-TIER-a) ancient Irish legend has her as the great-granddaughter of Angus mac Og, and half-sister of King Conchobar, and mother of Cu Chulainn.

Deirdre - (DYEER-dre or JEE-ur-druh) ancient Irish name, mythological heroine, meaning "young girl" or "woman", but usual meaning is "sorrow". Old Irish name popularized in the 20th C. In an early Irish tale, The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, Deirdre was the daughter of Feidlimid, who was King Concobar's storyteller. Derdriu (very old spelling), Dierdre, Dedre, Deidra, Derdriu, Derdre.

Delaney - "descendant of the challanger".

Delbchaem - daughter of Morgan, king of Coinchend. A prophecy said that when she married her mother would die, therefore she was guarded by monsters. But Art got past all obstacles and took her for his wife.

Derry - from the Irish word meaning "redhead".

Devin - "poet"; male or female name. Devany, Devon, Devyn.

Devnet - (Downet) from Old Irish damnat "little doe"; "poet". Damnat, queen of Munster, was the legendary ancestor of the O'Cahills, O'Flynns and O'Moriartys. Modern Irish Damhnait (DOW-net or DEV-nat).

Doireann - (DAHR-an or DOHR-en) from Old Irish Doirend, poss. meaning "daughter of Finn"; may also mean "sullen"; or dim. of "gift of God". In legend, Doirend was the daughter of the fairy king Midir, another was the granddaughter of the pagan god Dagda. Anglicized Dorren, Doreen ("moody"), Dorothy; Doirend, Doirind, Dairinn.

Doneele - feminine version of male name Don, from the Irish god of the Underworld.

Donnfhlaidh - "brown princess". Rarely found in history. Dunlaith, Dunflaith.

Druantia - (Druh-AN-tee-a or druh-an-TEE-a) a Gaelic-Celtic Goddess known as Queen of thd Druids and Mother of the tree calendar, an ancient method the Celts used to divide their year.

Duana - "song". Dubhain.

Dubh - from dub "dark". A druidess who drowned the rival for her husband's affections. Her husband shot her with his sling, and she fell into a pool that was then called Dubhlinn, or Dublin.

Dubheasa - (doo-VAH-sa) from Old Irish dub "dark" + ess "waterfall", probably meaning "dark lady of the waterfall".

Dubh Lacha - wife of Mongan, who was born the same night as she. She was kidnapped by Brandubh and rescued with the help of Cuimhne.

Dympna - or Dymphna; suitable one, virgin saint. An Irish saint. Her place of martyred death is marked by a monument in Gheel, Belgium, where she had fled for her life and virtue, as her own father (an Irish king, as the story goes) was determined to wed her, his own daughter, following the death of his wife and queen (Dymphna's natural mother). She is traditionally the patroness of those with mental illness and nervous afflictions, but has lately been adopted (in light of her personal history) by victims of incest and other sexual abuses. There exists a worldwide St. Dymphna Devotion prayer community to which one may subscribe through the Franciscan Fathers.