Caoimhe ( , ), pronounced Kweeva, sometimes anglicised as Kiva and pronounced as Keeva in Ulster, is an Irish feminine given name derived from

Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

(Old Irish ) "dear; noble". It means 'beautiful'. It has been well-used in English-speaking countries and particularly in Ireland. from the same root as the masculine name ''Caoimhín'' (

Kevin Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an ...

). , it was ranked 19th most popular name among female births in Ireland.

Notable people named Caoimhe

Caoimhe Archibald Caoimhe Archibald (born 20 February 1981) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. Biography Archibald is a native of Coleraine where she attended Loreto College. She proceeded to Queen's University, Belfast where she obtained a BSc and PhD in mol ...

, Irish MLA *

Caoimhe Butterly Caoimhe Butterly (born 1978) is an Irish human rights campaigner, educator, film-maker and therapist who has spent over twenty years working in humanitarian and social justice contexts in Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon and w ...

(born 1978), Irish human rights activist *

Caoimhe Guilfoyle ''Big Brother 2010'', also known as ''Big Brother 11'', was the eleventh series of the British reality television series '' Big Brother'', and the final series of the show to be broadcast by Channel 4. The show followed twenty-one contestants, k ...

, contestant in the 11th series of Big Brother UK, 2010 *

Keeva Fennelly Keeva Fennelly (born 1987) is a camogie player and financial reporter. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. Career She won an All-Ireland Junior medal in 2002 and a National League medal in 2008. She was the 2009 Waterford IT Ash ...

(born 1987), Irish

camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ...

player and financial reporter *

Kiva Reardon Kiva Reardon is a Canadian film programmer, writer, editor, and commentator. Background Reardon grew up in Toronto, and credits watching Elwy Yost's long-running ''Saturday Night at the Movies'' as her first introduction to film studies. Reardo ...

(born 1987), Irish-Canadian film critic, Founder of Cléo Journal, International Film Festival Programmer.

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Notable people named Caoimhe

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