Proper noun
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A surname from Irish.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI hate her," I said, and waited for the blow to fall. But Doctor Nolan only smiled at me as if something had pleased her very, very much and said, "I suppose you do. Sylvia Plath
Consider for instance, the facts that Jose Canseco was picked in the fifteenth round of the amateur draft, Roger Clemens the twelfth, Ryne Sandberg the twentieth, and Nolan Ryan the tenth. Andrew Zimbalist
What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan? Nolan Ryan
You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight. Reggie Jackson
I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness. Sylvia Plath
I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men. Morris West