Irish Girl Names Starting with C

Cadhla comes from a literary Irish word meaning “beautiful,” also glossed as “comely” or “graceful.”

From the Gaelic cara + the diminutive -in meaning “little friend or little beloved.”

Devotion to St. Catherine came to Ireland with Christianity.

From caol “slender” and fionn “white, fair, pure.”

From caomh “gentle, beautiful, precious.” The same root as Kevin, the name has become very popular in Ireland with the original Irish spelling.

Cara comes from the Irish word cara, “friend.”

From cas “curly-haired.” The Cassidys were the hereditary physicians to the Maguires, the chiefs of County Fermanagh between 1300 and 1600.

Catherine in Irish is Caitlin, pronounced KOIT-leen, meaning “pure, clear.”

Catriona is a spelling of the Irish Caitríona and the Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, the Gaelic forms of Catherine.

Chevonne in Irish is Siobhan, pronounced shiv-AWN, meaning “God is gracious.”

The feminine form of Ciaran, from the Irish ciar meaning “dark” and implies “dark hair and brown eyes.”

A medieval name derived from Latin clarus “clear, bright, famous.”

From clodhna meaning “shapely.” Cliodhna had three magical birds that could sing the sick to sleep and cure them.

Cloda in Irish is Clodagh, pronounced CLO-da.

The river Clody runs through County Tipperary and County Wexford and like most Irish rivers is named for a local female deity.

Colleen comes from the Irish word cailín, “girl” or “young unmarried woman,” a diminutive of caile, “woman, countrywoman.” In Irish, cailín is grammatically a masculine noun.

Croía comes from croí, the Irish word for “heart.” It is a new name rather than an old one.