Aoife
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aoife is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Eve and the Gaelic word meaning ‘beauty, radiance’.
- IEIreland≈1 in 971(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 32K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 971 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Eve and the Gaelic word meaning ‘beauty, radiance’.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aoife 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 | #103 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 971 | 229 | Aoife | 151 |
| US United States | — | 1,623 | 1 in 205K | 1.6K | Aoife | 225 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 85 | Aoife | 162 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 1 | Aoife | 99 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Aoife | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Aoife | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 36 | 1 in 163K | 36 | Aoife | 13 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aoife is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Irish legendary name; also the daughter of King Dermot of Leinster who married Strongbow.
as a nameIrish first names
Irish Gaelic: of uncertain origin, probably a derivative of aoibh beauty (cf. AOIBHEANN ). It was borne by a daughter of King Dermot of Leinster, who married Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, the leader of the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. The name has sometimes been Anglicized as EVA .
as a word
In Irish, a female given name from Old Irish, famous in Irish legend and currently fashionable in Ireland
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aoife Mulhollandb. 1978IEIrish actress
- Aoife O'Donovanb. 1982USIrish-American singer-songwriter
- Aoife McGregorb. 1985IEsister of Conor McGregor
- Aoife Hindsb. 1991GBBritish actress
- Aoife Mannionb. 1995GBIrish footballer (born 1995)
- Aoife Valkyrieb. 1996IEIrish professional wrestler, better
- Aoife O'Rourkeb. 1997IEIrish boxer
- Aoife Beggsb. 1999IEIrish cricketer
- Aoife McArdleGBIrish film director
- Aoife Ní FhearraighIEIrish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,810 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 229 | #16 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 88 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 85 | #8 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 49 | #87 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 36 | #3,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #8,810 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2013 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| IE Ireland | Irish First Names (Coghlan, 1985) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aoife mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Eve and the Gaelic word meaning ‘beauty, radiance’. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Aoife a male or female name?
- Aoife 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.
- In which country does Aoife have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Aoife in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aoife.
- How common is the name Aoife?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,623 people named Aoife in 2020, about 1 in 205 thousand residents.
- How common is Aoife compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Aoife is the 103rd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Aoife?
- In the etymology graph, Aoibhe is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Aoife?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aoifeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Aoife” — the 103rd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.