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Dymphna Dymphna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DIMF-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Patron saint of mental illness (Irish + Saint Dymphna Gheel Belgium)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "patron saint of mental illness (irish + saint dymphna gheel belgium)".

Dymphna is from the Irish Damhnait — little fawn from Irish damh (deer/ox/poet) + diminutive. Dymphna is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish Catholic heritage. Irish feminine name reflecting Catholic mental-health heritage.

Patron saint of mental illness (Irish).

The name in its native script.

Dymphna
Transliteration
Dymphna
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɪmf.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dymphna stands.

Dymphna 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.

Dymphnas before her.

Real people
Saint Dymphna of Gheel
Patron saint of mental illness + Gheel Family Care community psychiatric tradition + martyred c. 650 CE.
Martyred c. 650 CE
In fiction
Dymphna
Irish little fawn + Saint Dymphna patroness.

Names connected to Dymphna.

The number behind Dymphna.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dymphna reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.