Caoimhe
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KEE-va
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #607 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
- Style
- Big in Scotland, big in Northern Ireland
Caoimhe is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “gentle, beautiful, precious”. In 2025 it ranked 607th for girls in the UK (70 babies) and 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Caoimhe mean?
Irish: from Irish caomh
“gentle, beautiful, precious”
Shares its root, caomh, with the boys' name Caoimhín, the Irish form of Kevin.
Is Caoimhe a girl's or a boy's name?
Caoimhe is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 70 girls in the UK and 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Caoimhe in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 607th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 70 about 1 in 4,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 70 girls in the UK were named Caoimhe, making it the 607th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 458th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 168 girls.
Half of all the girls named Caoimhe in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 98 girls in the UK were given Caoimhe or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #452, up from #607 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,110th in England and Wales, 284th in Scotland and 75th in Northern Ireland.
Caoimhe in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #607 |
| 2024 | 66 | #637 |
| 2023 | 76 | #553 |
| 2022 | 90 | #494 |
| 2021 | 93 | #498 |
| 2020 | 98 | #458 |
| 2019 | 104 | #458 |
| 2018 | 117 | #418 |
| 2017 | 98 | #495 |
| 2016 | 137 | #373 |
| 2015 | 141 | #365 |
| 2014 | 137 | #368 |
| 2013 | 158 | #327 |
| 2012 | 149 | #361 |
| 2011 | 168 | #323 |
| 2010 | 130 | #384 |
| 2009 | 125 | #389 |
| 2008 | 143 | #349 |
| 2007 | 140 | #350 |
| 2006 | 119 | #385 |
| 2005 | 119 | #371 |
| 2004 | 102 | #400 |
| 2003 | 109 | #376 |
| 2002 | 111 | #347 |
| 2001 | 103 | #361 |
| 2000 | 100 | #371 |
| 1999 | 116 | #321 |
| 1998 | 119 | #331 |
| 1997 | 101 | #374 |
| 1996 | 20 | #1,061 |
How popular is Caoimhe in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,237th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24 about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Caoimhe, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had the most girls named Caoimhe of any year since it first appeared, in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Caoimhe in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were given Caoimhe or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,594, up from #5,237 for this spelling alone.
Caoimhe in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,432 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,808 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,234 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,344 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
Names like Caoimhe
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Keira, Cassidy, Aoibheann, Aoife, Clodagh, Teagan, Caragh, Eireann, Bree, Raegan, Fiadh, Eden
Other spellings of Caoimhe
Names related to Caoimhe
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Caoimhe: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/caoimhe, updated 20 October 2026.