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Meaning & History
Perhaps related to Beathan. It coincides with a Gaelic word meaning "vain, reckless, wanton, foolish". Other forms are Baothan, Baoithin/Beheen and Baolach. Baoithin was the name of a 7th-century Irish saint from Ennisboyne (originally Inis Boethine), County Wicklow.