Erwan
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Erwan () is a masculine Breton given name, sometimes spelled Erwann. Its francization is the French given name Yves.
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- Instance of
- male given name
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- native label
- Erwan
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- E650
- Cologne phonetics
- 0736
- Caverphone
- AWN111
- Commons category
- Erwan (given name)
- name day
- May 19
- language of work or name
- Breton
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Erwan () is a masculine Breton given name, sometimes spelled Erwann. Its francization is the French given name Yves.
== Etymology == From Old Breton given name . It might thus be formed of Proto-Brythonic words "well, good" and "talent, natural gift, ability" (compare Welsh and Irish ), or derived from Gaulish name .
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