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About the name
- Origin
- Irish
- English version
- Africa, Affrica
- Variants
- Africa
- Stronghold region
- Leinster
Overview
Borne by two 12th-century abbesses of Kildare and other medieval Irish women.
The story behind Aifric
Two abbesses of Brigid's monastery in Kildare bore this name in the 8th and 9th centuries, recorded in the Annals of Ulster.
Mythology & legend
Non-mythological; borne by two medieval abbesses of Kildare.
Did you know?
'Aifric' was the title of a popular Irish-language teen drama on TG4 in the 2000s.
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