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Caoimhseach Caoimhseach — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEE-veh-shahkh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Gentle one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "gentle one".

Caoimhseach is from the Irish Caoimhseach — variant of Caoimhe from Irish caomh (gentle/precious/dear). Caoimhseach is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish heritage. Irish feminine name reflecting Celtic Christian heritage.

Gentle one (Irish).

The name in its native script.

Caoimhseach
Transliteration
Caoimhseach
Pronunciation
/ ˈkiː.vɛ.ʃəx /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Caoimhseach stands.

Caoimhseach 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.

Caoimhseachs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Caoimhín / Saint Kevin of Glendalough
Founder of Glendalough monastic settlement c. 498-618 CE + Twelve Apostles of Ireland + patron saint of Dublin.
Irish hagiography

Names connected to Caoimhseach.

The number behind Caoimhseach.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Caoimhseach reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.