Aoibhin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- EE-vin
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,509 for girls
- Style
- Big in Northern Ireland
Aoibhin is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “pleasant, delightful”. In 2025 it ranked 2,509th for girls in the UK (11 babies).
What does Aoibhin mean?
Irish: spelling of Aoibhinn; from the Irish adjective aoibhinn
“pleasant, delightful”
From the Irish word aoibhinn, 'delightful', and related to the older name Aoibheann.
Meaning borrowed from Aoibhinn. More on Wiktionary.
Is Aoibhin a girl's or a boy's name?
Aoibhin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aoibhin in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,509th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 25,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were named Aoibhin, making it the 2,509th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 18 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Aoibhin than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Aoibhin in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 44 girls in the UK were given Aoibhin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #796, up from #2,509 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales and 205th in Northern Ireland.
Aoibhin in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #2,509 |
| 2024 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 16 | #1,882 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 7 | #3,433 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 10 | #2,582 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 8 | #2,790 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 5 | #3,233 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 7 | #2,341 |
| 2000 | 8 | #2,097 |
| 1999 | 8 | #2,089 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #2,281 |
Names like Aoibhin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Eireann, Cassidy, Caoimhe, Teagan, Eden, Raegan, Aoife, Kiara, Keira, Fiadh, Bree, Rowan
Other spellings of Aoibhin
More Irish names
Oscar, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy
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, “Aoibhin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aoibhin, updated 20 October 2026.