Aoife
Aoife is a girl name of Irish origin, meaning Beautiful; radiant.
What Aoife means
Beautiful; radiant.
Aoife sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Aoife comes from
Irish names come from the Gaelic tradition, and most of the familiar spellings are anglicisations of older forms. The original often looks nothing like the version in common use today.
Aoife is recorded as Irish in origin. Browse other Irish names.
How popular is Aoife?
You will not find Aoife in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Aoife
We group Aoife under the Irish tradition and grace and gentleness — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Aoife
These share Aoife's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Aifric — Pleasant and agreeable.
- Aoibhinn — Radiant and beautiful.
- Saoirse — Freedom, liberty.
- Sinead — God is gracious.
- Caoimhe — Gentle, beautiful and precious.
- Deirdre — She who whispers; sorrowful beauty.
- Fionnuala — Fair shoulder; white maiden.
- Grainne — Grain; grace; love.
- Maeve — She who intoxicates; queen.
- Mairead — Pearl.
- Niamh — Bright; radiant.
- Nuala — White shoulder; fair.