Aoife

Where Aoife comes from

Borrowed from Irish Aoife. The name is unrelated to the Biblical name Eva, which was rendered as Éabha in Irish. However, due to the lack of a more precise alternative familiar to English speakers, Aoife has often been anglicised as Eva or Eve.
— Wiktionary's entry for Aoife
  • Irish
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Aoife through the years
  1. 1985
    First appearance
    #9,307 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2018
    Peak, #1,748
    117 babies named Aoife, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.