CINDY FEENEY

Pet form of Cynthia or, less often, of Lucinda, now very commonly used as a given name in its own right, especially in North America. It has sometimes been taken as a short form of the name of the fairytale heroine Cinderella, which is in fact unrelated (being from French Cendrillon, a derivative of cendre ‘cinders’).

Irish: 1. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fiannaidhe ‘descendant of Fiannaidhe ’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, ‘champion’ (from fian ‘army’). 2. shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fidhne ‘descendant of Fidhne ’, a personal name probably derived from fiodh ‘wood’.