Caoimhe is an Irish name derived from the Old Irish cóem, meaning "beloved," "gentle," or "precious." The same root gives the masculine Kevin. The pronunciation in Irish is KEE-vah, with the silent letters being a feature of Irish spelling conventions.
Caoimhe is one of the most popular girl's names in Ireland — in the Irish top 25 for over two decades. Outside Ireland the spelling-to-sound mapping limits its use, but it appears in Irish-heritage families worldwide.
Caoimhe 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Caoimhe reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.