Entry № 787 · Celtic origin

Aoibhe Aoibhe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"Radiance / beauty"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Old Irish)

A name that means "radiance / beauty".

Aoibhe is from the Irish Aoibhe — variant of Aoife — from the Old Irish aoibhinn (radiance, beauty, pleasant). Aoibhe is one of the Irish-language feminine names — central to modern Gaeltacht communities. Aoife (the source variant) is the warrior princess of Scottish Albanian mythology + the second wife of Cú Chulainn in the Ulster Cycle — central to medieval Irish epic literature.

Radiance / beauty (Irish).

The name in its native script.

Aoibhe
Transliteration
Aoibhe
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aoibhe stands.

Aoibhe 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.

Aoibhes before her.

Real people

In fiction
Aoibhe / Aoife
Irish Ulster Cycle warrior princess.

Names connected to Aoibhe.

The number behind Aoibhe.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aoibhe reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.