What is the meaning of the Irish name 'Siobhan'?

A question for all those Irish people out there!

What is the meaning of the Irish name 'Siobhan'?
Don't know but , i do know a old Irish song called Siobhan your knickers the farmer is coming
Reply:It is a Irish, female name meaning "gracious".
Reply:It means "God is Gracious" and its pronounced Shi-Vawn. I should know this, it is my name.
Reply:It's the Irish for Joan or Joanne. In southern Ireland it's pronounced Shivawn while in the north it's more like Shuwan - same spelling.
Reply:Siobh谩n - (shuh-VAHN) "gracious." Joan, Hannah
Reply:If Irish then skivvy must come into it.
Reply:I'm not Irish I'm Welsh so therefore have a book on Celtic First Names by George MacKay. It says Siobhan (Irish Gaelic, female) Shiv-awn. The Gaelic form of Joan from Old French Jehane. In the latter form was introduced to Ireland by the Normans in the 12thC.
Reply:Don't need to be Irish; I just "google"!





SIOBHAN f Irish


Irish form of Jehanne, a Norman French variant of JEANNE.





JEANNE


Gender: Feminine


Usage: French


Pronounced: ZHAN [key]


Modern French form of Jehanne, an Old French feminine form of Johannes (see JOHN). Joan of Arc is known as Jeanne d'Arc in France.

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