Caoimhe
A girls’ name of Irish origin, meaning beautiful or gentle.
Caoimhe by the numbers
In 2025, 30 babies in England and Wales were named Caoimhe. In the US, 13 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 19 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
Names that come from Caoimhe
Forms of Caoimhe in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Caoimhe. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Carime5 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean beauty
Like Caoimhe, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean gentleness
Like Caoimhe, each of these has gentleness in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Leahweary; also delicate5,168 in the US (2017)
- Alicenoble, of noble kind825 in England and Wales (2025)
- Delilahdelicate, languishing1,180 in England and Wales (2025)
- Milliegentle strength; from Millicent or Amelia1,080 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alisonnoble kind; a form of Alice812 in the US (2017)
- Almanourishing, kind222 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Caoimhe
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