girl's name

Éadha

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 5
  • Popularity Top 1000 (Ireland)
  • Births on record 75

Northern Ireland

#254

as Eadha, 2024

Éadha is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 10 babies in Ireland, ranking #386. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Peaked in Ireland in 2022, when 11 babies were given the name.
  • It is a recent arrival in the birth records in Ireland.
  • Today about 1 in 4,486 babies in Ireland is given this name.
  • First appears in birth records in 2019.

Éadha over time

Births per decade in Ireland, 2010s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Éadha by decade in Ireland
Decade Births
2010s 3
2020s (to 2025) 45

How popular is Éadha?

In 2025, Éadha was given to 10 babies in Ireland, ranking #386 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Éadha is used

Northern Ireland as Eadha #254 6 in 2024
Ireland #386 10 in 2025
England & Wales as Eadha #6,150 3 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

Irish figures withhold any name given to fewer than three babies in a year, so a gap means the name fell below that floor rather than went unused. The Central Statistics Office began recording the síneadh fada in 2018, so accented and unaccented spellings are counted separately from that year on. Data & sources.

How Éadha is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Eadha Eadha is a spelling of Éadha, used in Northern Ireland, where it ranks #254. 27

Names that peaked alongside Éadha

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Éadha also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Éadha over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Éadha

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Éadha — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Éadha

Is Éadha a girl's or a boy's name?

Éadha is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Éadha most popular?

Éadha peaked in 2022, when 11 babies were given the name. It is a recent arrival in the birth records.

Is Éadha a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Éadha currently ranks #254 in Ireland. It is a recent arrival in the birth records. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.