Girl · Old Irish
Gobnait
Say it: GUB-nitch
Meaning
Uncertain; often linked to gobha 'smith', but this is unproven.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Later rendered in English as Abigail or Deborah, by convention rather than meaning.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Gobnet
Famous bearers
- Saint Gobnait of Ballyvourney
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
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