Caoímhe
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Caoímhe is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Irish caíme (“beauty, loveliness; charity, kindliness”), from cóem (compare modern caomh).
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Caoimhe in IE Ireland, GB United Kingdom, US United States and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old Irish caíme (“beauty, loveliness; charity, kindliness”), from cóem (compare modern caomh).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Caoímhe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #277 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 226 | Caoimhe | 103 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 28 | Caoimhe | 127 |
| US United States | — | 290 | 1 in 1.1M | 286 | Caoimhe | 117 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 130K | 3 | Caoimhe | 62 |
| FR France | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Caoimhe | 44 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Caoimhe | 14 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Caoímhe mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Irish caíme (“beauty, loveliness; charity, kindliness”), from cóem (compare modern caomh). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 1 other source.
- Is Caoímhe a male or female name?
- Caoímhe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Caoímhe?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Caoímhe in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caoimhe. After it come United Kingdom, United States, Australia and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Caoímhe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 290 people named Caoímhe in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Caoímhe compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Caoímhe is the 277th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Caoímhe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cao%C3%ADmheThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caoímhe” — ranked 17th in Ireland (CSO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.