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Caoilainn Caoilainn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEE-lin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Slender fair one (Irish + Saint Caolainn)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "slender fair one (irish + saint caolainn)".

Caoilainn is from the Irish Caoilainn / Caolfhionn — caol slender + fionn fair/white — slender fair one. Caoilainn is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish Catholic heritage. Irish feminine name reflecting Celtic Christian heritage.

Slender fair one (Irish).

The name in its native script.

Caoilainn
Transliteration
Caoilainn
Pronunciation
/ ˈkiː.lɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Caoilainn stands.

Caoilainn 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.

Caoilainns before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Caolainn
6th c. Irish virgin saint + Tearmann Caolainn Saint Caolainn's Sanctuary in Roscommon + Annals of the Four Masters + feast day November 3.
Irish hagiography

Names connected to Caoilainn.

The number behind Caoilainn.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Caoilainn reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.