Dylan Aaron Thomas Moorfoot, 31 October 2007. Both Rebecca and I settled on this name for our baby boy on the 2^nd day of his life. There wasn't much anguish over choosing a name; Rebecca suggested Dylan which sounded so right for him. The names Aaron and Thomas are genealogical, with Aaron being the name of Becca's Grandfather on her father's side and Thomas being the middle name of my Grandfather on my paternal father's side.

The anthroponymy of Dylan is rooted from the Welsh (more specifically, from the Proto-Celtic) word for Influential and is especially related to water. Dylan is formed from two Welsh words, dy- meaning 'thy' or 'thine', also you (sing.) and llanw, reconstructed in Proto-Celtic φlanwo- meaining flood or filling. This gives rise to echoes in Gaelic for 'the water edge' or 'wave, surge, billow'.

Esstentially, Dylan is the descendant of a compound of the Proto-Celtic *dī- φlanu-s which, taken together have a contextual meaning relative to 'The flood that receeds', 'The wave that floods', 'The tide that returns' (English Wikipedia).

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