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Fainche Fainche — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FAN-khih /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Saint Fainche of Rossory"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "saint fainche of rossory".

Fainche is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish Catholic heritage. Irish feminine name reflecting Celtic Christian heritage.

Saint Fainche of Rossory (Irish).

The name in its native script.

Fainche
Transliteration
Fainche
Pronunciation
/ ˈfæn.xɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fainche stands.

Fainche 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.

Fainches before her.

Real people

In fiction
Saint Fainche of Rossory
6th c. Irish saint + sister of Saint Enda of Aran + converted Enda to Christian life + Cluain Inis island monastery.
Irish hagiography

Names connected to Fainche.

The number behind Fainche.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fainche reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.