Declan (given name)
Declan is an Irish given name, an anglicised form of the Irish saint name Declán, also Deaglán or Déaglán. St. Declán founded a monastery in Ireland in the 5th century, and the St. Declán's stone has been credited as the site of many miracles. The name is believed to mean "man of prayer" or "full of goodness".
The name appears in an ogham inscription documented by the Ogham in 3D project as part of the name or Tecán, son of Déclán, although a short vowel is used for the 'e' in Déclán.
Notable people with the given name "Declan" include
A
- Declan Affley, Australian singer
- Declan Arthurs, Northern Irish soldier
B
- Declan Barron, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Bennett, English singer-songwriter
- Declan Bonner, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Brady, Irish criminal
- Declan Breathnach, Irish politician
- Declan Bree, Irish politician
- Declan Browne, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Buckley, Irish television personality
- Declan Buckley (designer), British landscape designer
- Declan Burke, British guitarist
- Declan Burns, Irish canoer
C
- Declan Carlile, American ice hockey player
- Declan Carr, Irish hurler
- Declan Carville, Northern Irish footballer
- Declan Casey, Australian rugby league footballer
- Declan Cassidy, Irish film director
- Declan Chisholm, Canadian ice hockey player
- Declan Costello, Irish politician
- Declan Coulter, Irish hurler
- Declan Cronin, American baseball player
- Declan Cross, Canadian football player
- Declan Curran, Australian rugby union footballer
- Declan Curry, Irish journalist
- Declan Cusack, Irish rugby union footballer
D
- Declan Dale, American filmmaker
- Declan Dalton, Irish hurler
- Declan Danaher, English rugby union player
- Declan Darcy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan de Barra, Irish musician
- Declan Devine, Northern Irish footballer
- Declan Donnellan, British theatre director
- Declan Donnelly, English television presenter
- Declan Doyle, American football coach
- Declan Drysdale, English footballer
- Declan Duffy, Irish criminal
- Declan Dunn, English footballer
E
- Declan Edge, Malaysian footballer
F
- Declan Fanning, Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler
- Declan Farmer, American ice sledge hockey player
- Declan Feenan, Irish playwright
- Declan Fitzpatrick, Irish rugby union footballer
- Declan Flynn, Irish social figure
- Declan Fogarty, Irish sportsperson
- Declan Fraser, Australian auto racing driver
- Declan Frith, English footballer
G
- Declan Galbraith, English singer
- Declan Gallagher, Scottish footballer
- Declan Ganley, Irish businessman and political activist
- Declan Glass, Scottish footballer
- Declan Goode, Irish hurler
H
- Declan Hannon, Irish hurler
- Declan Harvey, British journalist
- Declan Hegarty, Irish hammer thrower
- Declan Hill, Canadian journalist
- Declan Hughes (disambiguation), multiple people
- Declan Hulme, Irish novelist
- Declan Hutchings, English footballer
J
- Declan James, British squash player
- Declan John, Welsh footballer
- Declan Jones, British racing driver
K
- Declan Kearney, Irish politician
- Declan Keilty, Australian rules footballer
- Declan Kelly (disambiguation), multiple people
- Declan Kennedy, Irish architect
- Declan Kiberd, Irish writer and scholar
- Declan Kidney, Irish rugby union coach
L
- Declan Michael Laird, Scottish actor
- Declan Lally, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Lambert, Malaysian footballer
- Declan Lang, English prelate
- Declan Lonergan, Irish cyclist
- Declan Long, Irish art critic and lecturer
- Declan Lovett, Irish hurler
- Declan Lowney, Irish film director
- Declan Lynch, Irish columnist
- Declan Lynch (Gaelic footballer), Irish Gaelic footballer
M
- Declan MacManus, musician
- Declan Marmion, Irish priest
- Declan Masterson, Irish musician
- Declan Maxwell, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan McAleer, Irish politician
- Declan McCavana, Northern Irish professor
- Declan McCullagh, American journalist
- Declan McDaid, Scottish footballer
- Declan McDonnell, Irish politician
- Declan McDonogh, Irish jockey
- Declan McGonagle, Irish art curator
- Declan McKenna, British singer-songwriter
- Declan McLaughlin, Irish hurler
- Declan McManus, Scottish footballer
- Declan Meagher, Irish obstetrician
- Declan Meehan (disambiguation), multiple people
- Declan Meredith, Australian rugby union footballer
- Declan Moore (disambiguation), multiple people
- Declan Morgan, Northern Irish judge
- Declan Mountford, Australian rules footballer
- Declan Mulholland, Irish actor
- Declan Mulligan, Irish singer-songwriter
- Declan Murphy (disambiguation), multiple people
N
- Declan Nash, Irish sportsperson
- Declan Nerney, Irish singer-songwriter
O
- Declan O'Brien, American writer and director
- Declan O'Brien (footballer), Irish footballer
- Declan O'Donnell, New Zealand rugby sevens footballer
- Declan O'Keeffe, Irish sportsperson
- Declan O'Loan, Irish politician
- Declan O'Mahony, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan O'Meara, Irish hurler
- Declan O'Rourke, Irish singer-songwriter
- Declan O'Sullivan, Irish sportsperson
P
- Declan Patton, English rugby league footballer
- Declan Perkins, English footballer
- Declan Pilkington, Irish hurler
- Declan Power, Irish soldier
- Declan Prendergast, Irish hurler
Q
- Declan Qualter, Irish hurler
- Declan Quigley, Irish broadcaster and journalist
- Declan Quill, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Quinn, American cinematographer
R
- Declan Recks, Irish film director
- Declan Rice, English footballer
- Declan Roberts, English wheelchair rugby league footballer
- Declan Rooney, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Rudd, English footballer
- Declan Ruth, Irish hurler
- Declan Ryan (disambiguation), multiple people
S
- Declan Shalvey, Irish comic book artist
- Declan Sinnott, Irish musician
- Declan Skura, English footballer
- Declan Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer
T
- Declan Thompson, English footballer
- Declan Tingay, Australian racewalker
W
- Declan Walsh, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Declan Walsh (journalist), Irish journalist
Fictional characters
- Declan Macey, a character on the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Declan Mulqueen, a character portrayed by Richard Gere in The Jackal (1997 film)
- Declan Napier, a character on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Declan O'Callaghan, the male lead of Leap Year (2010 film)
- Declan O'Grady, a character played by Mark Mitchinson in an episode of The Brokenwood Mysteries
- Declan, a character played by Louis Ferreira in season five of the television series Breaking Bad
- Declan, a blue ground beetle in the Irish children’s television series ''Lu & the Bally Bunch''