Siobhan
Siobhan is a girl name of Irish origin, meaning God is gracious.
What Siobhan means
God is gracious.
Siobhan sits at 7 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Siobhan 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.
Siobhan is recorded as Irish in origin. Browse other Irish names.
How popular is Siobhan?
You will not find Siobhan 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 Siobhan
Two ideas meet in Siobhan: faith and the long-established classics. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Siobhan
These share Siobhan's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Grace — Grace, elegance, divine favor.
- Agnes — Pure and holy.
- Ariadne — Most holy and pure.
- Cecilia — Patroness of music.
- Constance — Steadfast and constant.
- Dorothy — Gift of God.
- Elizabeth — Pledged to God; God is my oath.
- Elsie — Pledged to God.
- Jane — God is gracious.
- Natalia — Born at Christmas.
- Augustine — Great and venerable.
- Benedict — Blessed.