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Ailbhe Ailbhe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AL-vyeh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"White / noble"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "white / noble".

Ailbhe is from the Irish Ailbhe — Old Irish ail rock + biu alive — living rock, white-strong. Ailbhe is one of the Irish unisex names — central to traditional Irish Gaelic Indigenous Goidelic Celtic heritage. 5th-c. Irish feminine name.

White / noble (Irish-Goidelic Celtic). 5th-c.

The name in its native script.

Ailbhe
Transliteration
Ailbhe
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːl.vjɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ailbhe stands.

Ailbhe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ailbhes before her.

Real people
Ailbhe Reddy
Irish musician + singer-songwriter + Personal History 2020 indie-folk.
born 1991
In fiction
Saint Ailbhe of Emly
Irish saint + Apostle of Munster + suckled by she-wolf.

Names connected to Ailbhe.

The number behind Ailbhe.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ailbhe reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.