Girl's name
Caoilfhionn
“KEE-lin”
caol + fionn, 'slender and fair'
The story behind the name
A name that survived mainly through St Caoilfhionn, and which returned in the late 20th century — often in the simplified spelling Keelin, which spares its owner a lifetime of spelling it out.
Meanings follow Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names and Woulfe; pronunciations give the commonest Irish-English form. Know this name better — a dialect pronunciation, a family tradition? Tell us. · All Irish names A–Z