Entry № 3789 · Irish origin

Grainne Grainne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GRAH-nyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Grace, sun"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "grace, sun".

Grainne (Gráinne) is an Irish name possibly meaning "grace" or related to grian (sun). In Irish legend, Gráinne is the woman who runs away with Diarmuid on the night of her wedding to the warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill.

Grainne is widely used in modern Ireland. Grace O'Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille, c. 1530-1603) was the famous Irish pirate queen.

Grace. The Irish pirate queen.

The name in its native script.

Gráinne
Transliteration
Gráinne
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡrɑːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Grainne stands.

Grainne 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.

Grainnes before her.

Real people
Grace O'Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille)
Irish pirate queen.
c. 1530 – 1603
In fiction
Gráinne
Heroine of The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne.
Irish mythology

Names connected to Grainne.

The number behind Grainne.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Grainne reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.