Given name
Caoimhín
“dear”
Caoimhín is a masculine given name from Old Irish, meaning “dear.” It is used in Irish.
Original IrishCaoimhghin
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Irish Cóemgen, built from Irish caomh (“dear”) + -ín.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Caoimhín’s family of names
In Irish usage, Caoimhín shares a linguistic root with the Serbo-Croatian form Dragan. In Irish usage, Caoimhín has a conventional equivalent in the English form Kevin. In Irish usage, Caoimhín has a related form in CAOIMHGHIN.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Caoimhín has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Irish roots to each of them.
Irishwhere Caoimhín comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Caoimhín
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