Entry № 9755 · Irish origin

Siobhan Siobhan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shih-VAWN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"God's grace"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "god's grace".

Siobhan is the Irish form of Joan — from the Hebrew Yochanan, meaning "God's grace." Joan and John share the same Hebrew root.

Siobhan has been used in Ireland for over five centuries. The actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan and the journalist Siobhan O'Connor are prominent bearers.

God's grace — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Siobhán
Transliteration
Siobhán
Pronunciation
/ ʃɪˈvɔːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Siobhan stands.

Siobhan 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.

Siobhans before her.

Real people
Siobhan Fahey
Irish singer, founding member of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister.
born 1958
In fiction
Siobhan Roy
Character in HBO's Succession.
2018–2023

Names connected to Siobhan.

The number behind Siobhan.

5

The Seeker

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