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Aoife

UK/ˈiː.fə//ˈi.fə/

Aoife proper noun: a female given name from Irish.

Proper noun

Aoife

  1. A female given name from Irish.

Origin of Aoife

Borrowed from Irish Aoife. The name is unrelated to the Biblical name Eva, which was rendered as Éabha in Irish. However, due to the lack of a more precise alternative familiar to English speakers, Aoife has often been anglicised as Eva or Eve.

Questions about Aoife

What does Aoife mean?
Aoife means a female given name from Irish.
What part of speech is Aoife?
Aoife is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Aoife?
Aoife is pronounced /ˈiː.fə/ (UK).

Words near Aoife in the dictionary

  1. AOG
  2. AOGs
  3. AOI
  4. Aoibhinn
  5. aoidos
  6. Aoife
  7. AOIs
  8. AOJ
  9. AOJs
  10. AOK
  11. Aoki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Aoife (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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