girl's name
Fiadh
FEE-a
- Origin Irish
- Gender Girl
- Syllables 1
- Letters 5
- Popularity Uncommon
- Births on record 6,819
Northern Ireland
#3
2024 births
Fiadh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "wild" or "deer," from the Irish fia. It ranked third in Ireland in 2025 with 273 births and third in Northern Ireland, having gone from almost unused to a top-five name in barely twenty years.
- Fiadh is a name of Irish origin.
- Peaked in Ireland in 2021, when 513 babies were given the name.
- It has been rising over the past decade in Ireland.
- Today about 1 in 164 babies in Ireland is given this name.
- First appears in birth records in 2002.
Fiadh over time
Births per decade in Ireland, 2000s 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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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 2000s | 39 |
| 2010s | 1,647 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 2,460 |
What Fiadh means
Fiadh means wild, or a deer. The Irish fia is the word for a deer, and the related fiadh carries a sense of wildness and of things belonging to the untamed outdoors, which is the reading most Irish parents have in mind.
Where Fiadh comes from
Fiadh comes from the Irish fia, a deer, a word that in older forms of the language also covered wild land and wild things generally. An older and separate sense, fiadh meaning respect or reverence, appears in religious writing, which is why some references give the meaning as "of the wild" and others as something closer to honor. The deer reading is the one that carried the name into modern use. Fiadh has no medieval history as a personal name; it is a genuinely recent revival drawn from vocabulary rather than from the saints' calendars or the sagas, part of a broader movement of Irish parents naming from the Irish language itself.
Fiadh in use
Fiadh's rise is one of the steepest in our Irish data. It ranked third in Ireland in 2025 with 273 births and third in Northern Ireland in 2024, yet stands at 257 in England and Wales and 1,993 in the United States, so it remains almost entirely an Irish and Northern Irish phenomenon. Our Irish series records it from 2002, which puts the whole of its ascent inside about two decades.
How popular is Fiadh?
In 2025, Fiadh was given to 273 babies in Ireland, ranking #3 that year. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.
Where Fiadh is used
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 Fiadh is spelled
Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.
| Spelling | What it is | Births on record |
|---|---|---|
| Fíadh | Fíadh is Fiadh written with a fada, used in Ireland, where it ranks #65. | 568 |
| Fiádh | Fiádh is a rare spelling of Fiadh, written with a fada and recorded 17 times, mostly in Ireland. | 17 |
Names that peaked alongside Fiadh
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Fiadh also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Fiadh over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Fiadh in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Fiadh
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Fiadh — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Fiadh
What does the name Fiadh mean?
Fiadh means "wild" or "deer," from the Irish fia.
How do you pronounce Fiadh?
FEE-a. The dh at the end is silent.
Is Fiadh an old Irish name?
No. It is a recent revival taken from Irish vocabulary rather than from mythology or the saints, and only entered widespread use this century.
How popular is Fiadh?
It ranked third in Ireland in 2025 and third in Northern Ireland, but only 257th in England and Wales.
Is Fiadh a girl's or a boy's name?
Fiadh is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.
How many syllables are in Fiadh?
Fiadh has 1 syllable.
Is Fiadh a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Fiadh currently ranks #3 in Ireland. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.