Irish Girl Names Starting with I

Meaning “thirst” as in “thirst for goodness or knowledge.” St. Ide and St. Brigid are considered the most influential woman saints of early Irish Christianity.

Iona is the name of a small island off the Isle of Mull, on the west coast of Scotland, where the Irish saint Colm Cille (Columba) founded his monastery around 563 AD.

Ita in Irish is Ide, pronounced EE-da, meaning “thirst for goodness.”