Entry № 3728 · Irish origin

Gobnait Gobnait — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOB-nit /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Irish beekeeper saint"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "irish beekeeper saint".

Gobnait is the Irish form of Latin Abigail. Saint Gobnait of Ballyvourney (5th-6th c.) was the Irish beekeeper-saint of County Cork — patroness of beekeepers, ironworkers, and County Cork. An angel had told her: "Settle where you see nine white deer grazing" — she found them at Ballyvourney, where the medieval church of Cill Ghobnait still stands.

Her well at Ballyvourney remains a pattern day pilgrimage site each February 11.

Irish beekeeper saint.

The name in its native script.

Gobnait
Transliteration
Gobnait
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡɒb.nɪt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gobnait stands.

Gobnait 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.

Gobnaits before her.

Real people
Saint Gobnait
Irish beekeeper saint.
5th-6th c.
In fiction
Gobnait
Irish hagiography.

Names connected to Gobnait.

The number behind Gobnait.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gobnait reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.