Aoibheann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Aoibheann has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 2012. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Aoibheann, 2022
1 in 677,000
Aoibheann over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Aoibheann?
Aoibheann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 677,000
- 5 of 3,385,755 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Aoibheann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aoibheann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Aoibheanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Aoibheann was born before 2018 — so the typical Aoibheann is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 83.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 83.3% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Aoibheann rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2018 (7)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Aoibheann around the world
Where Aoibheann ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2002–2025#4,201in 2025
- Scotland2014–2014#681in 2014
- Northern Ireland1997–2025#106in 2025
- Ireland1971–2025#180in 2025
- South Australia2013–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Aoibheann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Aoibheann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Aoibheann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.