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Aoife

#2,120 in 2025Girls' name

Beauty

Aoife has been given to 2,181 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #2,120 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Aoife, 2025

1 in 37,700

Aoife over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aoife: meaning, origin, and history

Beauty

Irish and Old Irish

What Aoife means

Aoife means “beauty”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aoife (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aoife is used in English and Irish. Its origins include Irish and Old Irish.

Aoife comes through Irish Aoife.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Aoife is pronounced /ˈi.fə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,181 girls were recorded with the name Aoife between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 117 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,748 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,820 in 2020 to #2,120 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,014 in 2015 to #2,120 in 2025.

How common is Aoife?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,120
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aoife sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aoife. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aoifes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aoife was born before 2015 — so the typical Aoife is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,181
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (862).

Is Aoife 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
+113
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−300
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.2%
Peak was 2018 (117)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,748
2018

Spellings of Aoife

Aoife is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 88.2% against Aoife's 0.33%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aoife is used

Across 2016–2025, Aoife was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 19,790 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,030
  2. 2New York1 in 9,091
  3. 3Washington1 in 9,091
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 14,286
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Illinois1 in 16,667
  7. 7Nevada1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aoife around the world

Where Aoife 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #192
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1990–2025
    #116
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #8
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–2025
    #34
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–2020
    #7,442
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aoife

People whose public names include Aoife, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aoife in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aoife. Linked forms have their own page here.

Aoiffe

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aoife by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,120
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 300
Best rank ever
#1,748
2018
Peak year
2018
117 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,181
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Aoife

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aoife

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aoife, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aoife

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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