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Caoimhe

#5,274 in 2025Girls' name

Dear, beloved, gentle

Caoimhe has been given to 355 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #5,274 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Caoimhe, 2025

1 in 138,000

Caoimhe over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caoimhe: meaning, origin, and history

Dear, beloved, gentle

Old Irish

What Caoimhe means

Caoimhe means “dear, beloved, gentle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Caoimhe is used in Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Its origins include Old Irish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Keavy.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Irish, Caoimhe is pronounced /ˈkiːvʲə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 355 girls were recorded with the name Caoimhe between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,274 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,286 in 2020 to #5,274 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,598 in 2015 to #5,274 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caoimhe?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,274
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caoimhe 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caoimhe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caoimhes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caoimhe was born before 2012 — so the typical Caoimhe is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
355
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (146).

Is Caoimhe 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
+3,271
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,012
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,324
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (24)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,274
2025

Where Caoimhe is used

Across 1910–2025, Caoimhe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,096,891 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Caoimhe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caoimhe around the world

Where Caoimhe 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
    #1,110
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2025
    #284
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #74
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1966–2025
    #31
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1998–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Caoimhe by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,274
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,012
Best rank ever
#5,274
2025
Peak year
2025
24 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
355
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Caoimhe

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

CaoilinnCaoilainnCaomi

Sibling names for Caoimhe

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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