Girl's name
Aifric
“AF-rick”
possibly 'pleasant' or 'agreeable'
The story behind the name
Two 12th-century abbesses of Kildare bore it, and so did a queen of Man — Affraic, daughter of Fergus, Lord of Galloway, who married King Olaf of Man. Nothing to do with the continent.
Famous people with this name
- Aifric Keogh (born 1992) — Irish rower
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Aifric on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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