Felimy as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Felimy

What is the meaning of the name Felimy ?

The baby name Felimy is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced FEH-lih-mee (common English); FAY-lee-mee (approx. Irish).

Felimy is Irish in Origin.

Felimy is a Hiberno-English form of an Irish masculine name ultimately from Old Irish Feidlimid (also Fedelmid), later Gaeilge Féidhlim and Féilim. The root is linked to Old Irish feidil ‘patient, enduring, constant,’ yielding meanings such as ‘steadfast,’ ‘ever good,’ or ‘enduring one.’ The spelling Felimy mirrors the spoken form Féilimí in Irish, where final -í is heard as -ee.

The name has deep early-medieval currency in Ireland, borne by rulers like Feidlimid mac Crimthainn, king of Munster (d. 846), and by saints, notably St Féilim (Felim) of Kilmore, patron of parts of County Cavan. These associations anchored its survival in Ulster and Connacht. In English-language records of the 18th–19th centuries it appears as Felimy beside Phelim and Felim. Modern variants include Féilim, Féilimí, Féidhlim, and Féidhlimidh; archaic spellings Feidlimid/Fedelmid; and the common Anglicizations Phelim and Felim.

⚙ Felimy is vanishingly rare. In all, it appears just 2 times, across 2 countries.