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Aoife

Pronounced /ˈi.fə/

Rank in 2024
#2,240
Born in 2024
84
Peak year
2018 · #1760
Origin
Irish

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 84 girls were named Aoife, about 1 in every 19,205.
  • It peaked in 2018 with 117 babies, ranked #1760.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1985.
  • 2,093 girls have been named Aoife since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Aoife per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. 0
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 138 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 789 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,166 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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.

  • A female given name from Irish.
Origin
Irish
Say it
/ˈi.fə/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Aoife, CC BY-SA 4.0.