Niamh
| Pronunciation | English: /niːv/ NEEV Irish: [n̠ʲiəw] |
|---|---|
| Gender | feminine |
| Language(s) | Irish |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Ireland |
| Meaning | bright, radiant |
| Region of origin | Ireland |
| Popularity | see popular names |
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Niamh (Irish: [n̠ʲiəw]; from Old Irish Niaṁ) is an Irish feminine given name (meaning "bright" or "radiant"),[1] anglicised as Neve, Nieve, Neave, Neavh or Neeve.[2]
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.[3][4][5]
Neve is also a Dutch and Flemish surname.
People with the given name[]
Niamh[]
- Niamh Algar (born 1992), Irish actress
- Niamh Blackshaw (born 1999), English actress
- Niamh Briggs (born 1984), captain of Ireland's women's rugby team, 2015 Six Nations Champions
- Niamh Bhreathnach (born 1945), Irish Minister for Education, 1993-97
- Niamh Charles (born 1999), English footballer
- Niamh Cosgrave (born 1964), Irish politician
- Niamh Coyle, camogie player
- Niamh Cusack (born 1959), Irish actress, daughter of Cyril Cusack
- Niamh Fahey (born 1987), Irish footballer
- Niamh Houston (born 1991), Northern Irish musician
- Niamh Kavanagh (born 1968), Irish singer and 1993 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
- Niamh Kelly (born 1995), Gaelic football player and Australian rules player
- Niamh Kilkenny, Irish camogie player
- Niamh Kindlon (born 1981), Irish Gaelic footballer
- Niamh McCarthy (born 1994), Irish Paralympic discus thrower
- Niamh McGrady (born 1983), Northern Irish actress
- Niamh McGrath, camogie player
- Niamh Mulcahy, camogie player
- Niamh Ní Charra, Irish fiddler, concertina player and singer
- Niamh Nic Daéid, Irish forensic scientist
- Niamh O’Connor, writer, journalist and novelist
- Niamh Parsons, traditional Irish singer
- Niamh Perry (born 1990), Irish singer and actress
- Niamh Marie Redmond, Miss Ireland 1996
- Niamh Reid Burke (born 1991), Irish footballer
- Niamh Rippin (born 1994), British artistic gymnast
- Niamh Smyth (born 1978), Irish politician
- Niamh Uí Bhriain (born 1970), Irish activist
- Niamh Walsh, Irish actress
- Niamh Whelan (born 1990), Irish sprinter
- Niamh Wilson (born 1997), Canadian actress
Neve, Neave, Neavh or Nieve[]
- Nieve Jennings (born 1987), Scottish model
- Neve McIntosh (born 1972), Scottish actress
- Neve Gayford (born 2018), daughter of Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Neave Brown (born 1929), American-British architect
- Neve Campbell (born 1973), Canadian actress (Neve was also the maiden name of her Dutch mother)
Fictional[]
Characters[]
- Niamh Cassidy in the soap opera Fair City
- Niamh, wife of Slaine Mac Roth in the 2000 AD comic series Sláine
- Niamh Quigley in the BBC Television programme Ballykissangel
- Niamh O’Connor (character), minor character in the soap opera Emmerdale
- Niamh in the book Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
- Niamh Cranitch in the BBC legal drama, Silk
- Niamh Connolly in Channel 4 TV series Father Ted
- Niamh Brodie, deceased sister of Jackson Brodie in the book Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- Niamh Fairbrother in the book The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
- Ebba/Niamh Rose, known as Rose, main character in the book East by Edith Pattou
- Niamh in the ABC2 show Please Like Me
- Niamh in the movie Dark Touch
- Niamh Reid in the TV3 series Red Rock
- Niamh Donoghue in the BBC 1 series Doctors
Places[]
- The Niamh Passes, a set of mountain passes located in the world of Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time
Other uses of the name[]
- LÉ Niamh (P52), a ship in the Irish Naval Service
See also[]
- List of Irish-language given names
- Neve (disambiguation)
- Nia (given name)
- Nieves
- All pages with titles beginning with Niamh
- All pages with titles beginning with Neve
- All pages with titles beginning with Nieve
References[]
- ^ Niamh in Ó Dónaill, Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (1977), accessed 8 August 2020
- ^ Niamh (behindthename.com) (accessed 8 August 2020), Neave (babynamesofireland.com), MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Neve (mfnames.com) Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Niamh Maire Fitzgerald in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958". Ancestry.com.
- ^ "Niamh O'Connell in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958". Ancestry.com.
- ^ "Niamh Máire Nic Ghearailt in the Web: Ireland, Census, 1911". Ancestry.com. 1911. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
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