Siofra is from the Irish Síofra — elf, sprite, changeling, fairy child. A modern American baby name in the broader Irish-Celtic mythological heritage aesthetic. Siofra is one of the foundational Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish mythological heritage. The foundational Irish síofra is foundational central to foundational Irish folklore + foundational Aos Sí (the People of the Mounds / Tuatha Dé Danann) + foundational foundational Sídhe (fairy mounds) + foundational Banshee (Bean Sídhe — fairy woman) + foundational Leprechaun (Lú Chorpán — small body) + foundational Changeling heritage (foundational belief that fairies replaced human children with fairy substitutes) + foundational central to foundational Irish pre-Christian + Celtic mythological heritage + foundational Brú na Bóinne foundational Newgrange + Knowth + Dowth megalithic Sídhe-mound complex c. 3200 BCE + foundational UNESCO World Heritage Site + foundational influencing foundational W.B. Yeats The Stolen Child 1886 + Lady Gregory Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland 1920. Foundational Irish feminine name reflecting Celtic Indigenous folkloric heritage.
Featured throughout Irish heritage.
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Siofra reduces to one.