Entry № 290 · Irish origin

Aine Aine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AWN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Radiance, brightness"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "radiance, brightness".

Aine (Áine) is the Irish goddess of summer, wealth, and sovereignty — associated with the sun, midsummer, and the moon. The name means "radiance" or "brightness."

Aine is widely used in Ireland but rare elsewhere. The pronunciation "AWN-yah" surprises non-Irish speakers.

Radiance. The Irish goddess of summer.

The name in its native script.

Áine
Transliteration
Áine
Pronunciation
/ ˈɔːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aine stands.

Aine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aines before her.

Real people
Aine Minogue
Irish harpist.
born 1968
In fiction
Áine
Irish goddess of summer.
Irish mythology

Names connected to Aine.

The number behind Aine.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aine reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.