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Meabh Meabh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mayv /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Intoxicating one (Modern Irish + Queen Maeve)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern (Irish)

A name that means "intoxicating one (modern irish + queen maeve)".

Meabh is from the modern Irish Meabh — modern Irish spelling of Medb — intoxicating one, mead-bearer. Meabh is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish heritage. subject of pan-Irish Gaelic cultural heritage. Modern Irish feminine name reflecting Celtic heritage.

Intoxicating one (Modern Irish).

The name in its native script.

Meabh
Transliteration
Meabh
Pronunciation
/ meɪv /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meabh stands.

Meabh 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.

Meabhs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Queen Maeve / Medb
Central character in Táin Bó Cúailnge + Ulster Cycle + sovereignty goddess + Queen of Connacht.
Ulster Cycle Irish mythology

Names connected to Meabh.

The number behind Meabh.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meabh reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.