Girl's name
Aignéis
“ag-NAYSH”
from Greek hagnē, 'pure' or 'sacred'
The story behind the name
From the Roman girl martyred in 304. Woulfe records that it was brought into Ireland by the Anglo-Normans, like a good many of the saints' names now thought of as Irish.
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