Aoife
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thumb|Aífe; by John Duncan (painter)|John Duncan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- female given name
- Named after
- Esuvii
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- native label
- Aoife
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- A100
- Cologne phonetics
- 03
- Caverphone
- AF1111
- Commons category
- Aoife (given name)
- language of work or name
- Irish
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- First officially recorded use in 20th-century Ireland
- Given name
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thumb|Aífe; by John Duncan (painter)|John Duncan
Aoife ( , ) is an Irish and Gaelic feminine given name. The name is derived from the Irish Gaelic aoibh, which means "beauty" or "radiance". It has been compared to the Gaulish name Esvios (Latinized Esuvius, feminine Esuvia), which may be related to the tribal name Esuvii and the theonym Esus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aoife” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.