Entry № 2106 · Irish origin

Cliodhna Cliodhna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLEE-na /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Irish queen of the banshees"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "irish queen of the banshees".

Cliodhna (also Clíona) is the Irish goddess of love, beauty, and the Otherworld — queen of the banshees of southern Ireland. Three brightly-colored magical birds were her companions, and Cliodhna's Wave (Tonn Chlíodhna) was one of the three great waves of Ireland.

Used widely in modern Ireland.

Queen of the banshees. The Irish goddess of love.

The name in its native script.

Clíodhna
Transliteration
Clíodhna
Pronunciation
/ ˈkliː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cliodhna stands.

Cliodhna 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.

Cliodhnas before her.

Real people
Cliodhna
Irish goddess.
In fiction
Cliodhna
Queen of the banshees.
Irish mythology

Names connected to Cliodhna.

The number behind Cliodhna.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cliodhna reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.