Entry № 6663 · Celtic origin

Meadhbh Meadhbh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"Queen Maeve of Connacht"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Old Irish)

A name that means "queen maeve of connacht".

Meadhbh is from the Old Irish Medb (she who intoxicates) — anglicized as Maeve. Queen Medb of Connacht is the warrior queen at the center of the Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley, c. Subject of W. B. Also: Saint Maeve — Irish abbess (5th-6th c.). Central to modern Irish feminist literary reclamation. figure in Irish-language cultural heritage.

Queen Maeve of Connacht — a Celtic name.

The name in its native script.

Meadhbh
Transliteration
Medb
Pronunciation
/ meɪv /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meadhbh stands.

Meadhbh 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.

Meadhbhs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Queen Medb (Meadhbh)
Irish warrior queen + Táin Bó Cúailnge.

Names connected to Meadhbh.

The number behind Meadhbh.

5

The Seeker

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