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Neven
Neven Neven has the open quality of the sky etymology — characters with this name tend to be expansive thinkers, people who see the larger pattern when others are focused on the immediate. The Breton specificity gives them cultural depth and distinctness: a name that cannot be mistaken for French or English but stands apart as something older and more western.
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