Niamh
Not to be confused with
Naomh .
Niamh (Irish: [n̠ʲiəw] Old Irish Niaṁ Irish feminine given name (meaning "bright" or "radiant"),[ 2] anglicised as Neve , Nieve , Neave , Neavh or Neeve .[ 3]
In Irish mythology , Niamh is the daughter of the god of the sea, Manannán mac Lir and one of the queens of Tír na nÓg , the land of eternal youth. She was the lover of the poet-hero Oisín . The first recorded use of Niamh (that spelling) as a given name in modern Ireland was in 1911, when two children were registered with the name and when a Niamh was listed in that year's census. [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
People with the given name
Niamh
Niamh Algar (born 1992), Irish actressNiamh Bhreathnach (born 1945), Irish Minister for Education, 1993–97Niamh Blackshaw (born 1999), English actressNiamh Brennan (born 1954), Irish academicNiamh Briggs (born 1984), captain of Ireland's women's rugby team, 2015 Six Nations ChampionsNiamh Campbell , Irish authorNiamh Charles (born 1999), English footballerNiamh Cosgrave (born 1964), Irish politicianNiamh Coyle , camogie playerNiamh Coyne (born 2001), Irish swimmerNiamh Cusack (born 1959), Irish actress, daughter of Cyril CusackNiamh Emerson (born 1999), English hepathleteNiamh Fahey (born 1987), Irish footballerNiamh Farrelly (born 1999), Irish footballerNiamh Fisher-Black (born 2000), New Zealand professional racing cyclistNiamh Greene (born 1971), Irish writerNiamh Houston (born 1991), Northern Irish musicianNiamh Kavanagh (born 1968), Irish singer and 1993 winner of the Eurovision Song ContestNiamh Kelly (born 1995), Gaelic football player and Australian rules playerNiamh Kilkenny (born 1989), Irish camogie playerNiamh Kindlon (born 1981), Irish Gaelic footballerNiamh McCann (born 1971), Irish sculptor and visual artistNiamh McCarthy (born 1994), Irish Paralympic discus throwerNiamh McGrady (born 1983), Northern Irish actressNiamh McGrath , camogie playerNiamh Mulcahy , camogie playerNiamh Ní Charra , Irish fiddler, concertina player and singerNiamh Nic Daéid , Irish forensic scientistNiamh O’Connor , writer, journalist and novelistNiamh Parsons , traditional Irish singerNiamh Perry (born 1990), Irish singer and actressNiamh Marie Redmond , Miss Ireland 1996Niamh Reid Burke (born 1991), Irish footballerNiamh Rippin (born 1994), British artistic gymnastNiamh Sharkey Irish children's authorNiamh Smyth (born 1978), Irish politicianNiamh Uí Bhriain (born 1970), Irish activistNiamh Walsh , Irish actressNiamh Whelan (born 1990), Irish sprinterNiamh Wilson (born 1997), Canadian actress
Fictional
Characters
Niamh, wife of Slaine Mac Roth in the 2000 AD comic series Sláine
Niamh, in the book Son of the Shadows
Niamh, in the ABC2 show Please Like Me
Niamh, in the movie Dark Touch
Niamh, in the book The Kaiju Preservation Society
Niamh, in the Sesame Street Power of We Club
Niamh Brodie, deceased sister of Jackson Brodie in the book Case Histories
Niamh Cassidy , in the soap opera Fair City Niamh Cranitch, in the BBC legal drama, Silk
Niamh Connolly, in Channel 4 TV series Father Ted
Niamh Donoghue , in the BBC 1 series Doctors Niamh Fairbrother, in the book The Casual Vacancy
Professor Niamh Fitzgerald, from the video game Hogwarts Legacy
Niamh the Invitation Fairy, in the book series Rainbow Magic
Niamh O’Connor (character) , minor character in the soap opera Emmerdale Niamh O'Hare, in the Irish TV series Hope Street
Niamh Power, birth name of protagonist in Orphan Train , novel by Christina Baker Kline
Niamh Reid, in the TV3 series Red Rock
Ebba/Niamh Rose, known as Rose, main character in the book East
Niamh Quigley, in the BBC Television programme Ballykissangel
Places
Other uses of the name
See also
References
^ Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0 ^ Niamh in Ó Dónaill, Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (1977), accessed 8 August 2020^ Niamh (behindthename.com) (accessed 8 August 2020),
Neave (babynamesofireland.com) ,
MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Neve (mfnames.com) Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine ^ "Niamh Maire Fitzgerald in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958" . Ancestry.com .^ "Niamh O'Connell in the Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958" . Ancestry.com .^ "Niamh Máire Nic Ghearailt in the Web: Ireland, Census, 1911" . Ancestry.com . 1911. Retrieved 26 December 2018 .
