Niamh

Niamh

Pronunciation	Irish: [ˈniː.əv] or /ˈniːv/
Gender	feminine
Language(s)	Irish
Origin
Word/name	Ireland
Meaning	bright

Niamh (Irish pronunciation: [ˈniːəv], with two syllables) is an Irish feminine given name meaning "bright" in Irish. A variant form is Niav. Neve, Neave, Neeve and Nieve are anglicised forms of the name.

In Irish mythology (e.g. Tír na nÓg), Niamh was the daughter of the god of the sea.

Women named Niamh

• Niamh Bhreathnach, Irish Minister for Education from 1993 until 1997
• Niamh Cosgrave, Irish politician
• Niamh Cusack, Irish actress and daughter of the late Irish actor Cyril Cusack
• Niamh Earnshaw, English child actress
• Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer and 1993 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
• Niamh Parsons, traditional Irish singer
• Niamh Perry, Irish singer and actress
• Niamh Marie Redmond, Miss Ireland 1996

Women named Neve or Nieve

• Nieve Jennings, Scottish model
• Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress

• Canadian actress Neve Campbell's name (Template:Pron-en) came from her mother's maiden name, and is of Dutch – Sephardic Jewish origin; the resemblance of her name to Niamh is coincidental.

Fictional characters

• Niamh Cassidy in the soap opera Fair City
• Niamh, wife of Slaine Mac Roth in the 2000 AD comic series Sláine
• Niamh Quigley in the BBC Television programme Ballykissangel

Other uses of the name

• LÉ Niamh (P52), a ship in the Irish Naval Service
• NIAMH The Northern Ireland Assosiation for Mental Heath

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Niamh
• All pages with titles beginning with Neve
• All pages with titles beginning with Nieve