Entry № 7209 · Irish origin

Naoise Naoise — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEE-shuh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Warrior (Irish mythology Deirdre of the Sorrows)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "warrior (irish mythology deirdre of the sorrows)".

Naoise is from the Old Irish — possibly meaning warrior or champion; a male name historically used for both genders in modern Celtic revival naming. Yeats (Deirdre, 1907), J.M. Synge (Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1910), and James Stephens (Deirdre, 1923); the tale of Naoise and Deirdre remains one of the love stories in Irish literary heritage. Naoise Roo — Irish singer-songwriter. Naoise Mac Suibhne — Irish actor.

Warrior (Irish mythology Deirdre of the Sorrows) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Naoise
Transliteration
Naoise
Pronunciation
/ ˈniː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Naoise stands.

Naoise 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.

Naoises before her.

Real people
Naoise Dolan
Irish novelist.
born 1992
In fiction
Naoise
Irish myth: Deirdre of the Sorrows.
8th c.

Names connected to Naoise.

The number behind Naoise.

9

The Giver

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