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I'll be more specific, its an incredibly common Irish name. I'm of Irish descent & we've got more Eamon's in my family then I could care to count!
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Eamon deValera was an Irish freedom fighter and the first president of Ireland (the Free State and after), so the name is common amongst people who were in tune with the Irish struggle for independence from England. I am sure it would have been fairly common among Irish (the ones in Ireland) anyway, but that just added to the popularity.