Entry № 7485 · Welsh origin

Nimue Nimue — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NIM-yoo-ay /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"The Lady of the Lake (gave Excalibur to Arthur)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Old French)

A name that means "the lady of the lake (gave excalibur to arthur)".

Nimue (also Niniane, Viviane, Vivien) is of obscure Celtic origin.

Lady of the Lake.

The name in its native script.

Nimue
Transliteration
Nimue
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɪm.juː.eɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nimue stands.

Nimue 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.

Nimues before her.

Real people
Nimue
Arthurian enchantress.
In fiction
Nimue
Netflix's Cursed.
2020

Names connected to Nimue.

The number behind Nimue.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nimue reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.