Aoibhe
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EE-va
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Big in Northern Ireland
Aoibhe is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “beauty, radiance”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Aoibhe mean?
Irish
“beauty, radiance”
From the Irish aoibh, 'beauty, pleasant expression'; it is pronounced like Eva.
Is Aoibhe a girl's or a boy's name?
Aoibhe is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aoibhe in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,856among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Aoibhe, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,312th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 29 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Aoibhe than any year since 2005.
Half of all the girls named Aoibhe in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 857 girls in the UK were given Aoibhe or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #65, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Eva 848
- Aoibhe 9
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales and 334th in Northern Ireland.
Aoibhe in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2023 | 19 | #1,666 |
| 2022 | 20 | #1,591 |
| 2021 | 26 | #1,323 |
| 2020 | 26 | #1,312 |
| 2019 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2018 | 19 | #1,678 |
| 2017 | 26 | #1,356 |
| 2016 | 29 | #1,243 |
| 2015 | 29 | #1,244 |
| 2014 | 24 | #1,418 |
| 2013 | 22 | #1,505 |
| 2012 | 24 | #1,430 |
| 2011 | 19 | #1,629 |
| 2010 | 25 | #1,344 |
| 2009 | 20 | #1,507 |
| 2008 | 15 | #1,840 |
| 2007 | 14 | #1,874 |
| 2006 | 13 | #1,860 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
Names like Aoibhe
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Caoimhe Aoibheann Aoife Cassidy Keira Teagan Eireann Bree Fiadh Eire Eden Raegan
Other spellings of Aoibhe
Names related to Aoibhe
More Irish names
Oscar Rowan Rory Maeve Finn Aiden Ryan Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aoibhe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aoibhe, updated 20 October 2026.