Monastery Names

20 Monastery names that mean monastery for boys, listing Monastery baby names 11-20. Kelly and Kevin are popular names. Comhghall, Dunstan, Eloi, Fintan, Minster, Odilo, Odo and Pryor are uncommon names. View Monastery baby names for name meanings, or search other baby names.

Comhghall ... including the sixth-century founder of the great monastery at Bangor ...

Dunstan ... Place name. Saint Dunstan (10th century) restored the monastery system in England after the devastating Viking raids of previous decades. [3]

Eloi ... Saint Eligius was a sixth century French metalworker and engraver of coins who later founded a monastery and a convent ... [3]

Fintan ... whose monastery existed at a remarkable level of austerity ...

Kelly ... possibly meaning "bright-headed", "strife", or "church, monastery" ... [1]

Kevin ... Saint Kevin (seventh century) founded a monastery that became famous as an educational center ... [9]

Minster ... Place name. Originally referred to a church belonging to a monastery.

Odilo ... Saint Odilo was an 11th-century monk and abbott of the influential monastery at Cluny who instituted the observation of All Souls' day on November 2 ... [6]

Odo ... Saint Odo was a ninth-century French saint who was abbott at the famous monastery of Cluny.

Pryor ... a prior is the monk in charge of a monastery. [1]

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