Niamh

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title: "Niamh" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["irish-language-feminine-given-names", "feminine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/ireland" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niamh" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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| | gender | feminine | | meaning | bright, radiant | | region | Ireland | | language | Irish | | origin | Ireland | | related names | Nia | | popularity | number 21 in Northern Ireland, 30 in Ireland, 39 in Scotland and 81 in England and Wales. | ::

| name = Niamh | pronunciation =

| gender = feminine | meaning = bright, radiant | region = Ireland | language = Irish | origin = Ireland | derived = | related names = Nia | popularity = number 21 in Northern Ireland, 30 in Ireland, 39 in Scotland and 81 in England and Wales. | footnotes = Niamh (; from Old Irish Niaṁ) is an Irish feminine given name (meaning "bright" or "radiant"), anglicised as Neve, Nieve, Neave, Neavh or Neeve.Niamh (behindthename.com) (accessed 8 August 2020), Neave (babynamesofireland.com), MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Neve (mfnames.com)

In Irish mythology, Niamh is the daughter of the god of the sea, Manannán mac Lir and one of the queens of Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth. She was the lover of the poet-hero Oisín. The first recorded use of Niamh (that spelling) as a given name in modern Ireland was in 1911, when two children were registered with the name and when a Niamh was listed in that year's census.

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Neve, Neave, or Nieve

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  1. {{cite LPD. 3
  2. [http://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/niamh Niamh] in Ó Dónaill, ''Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla'' (1977), accessed 8 August 2020
  3. "Niamh Maire Fitzgerald in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958".
  4. "Niamh O'Connell in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958".
  5. (1911). "Niamh Máire Nic Ghearailt in the Web: Ireland, Census, 1911".

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