B�b - (BEHB) pet name. Babe.

Badb - (BIBE) "boiling", "battle raven", or "scald-crow". A war goddess and wife of war god Net; sister of Morrigan, Anu, and Macha. Associated with the Cauldron of Life, enlightenment, inspiration, wisdom. Badhbh.

Baib�n - Irish Gaelic pet form of Bairbre.

B�irbre - (BAR-bruh) "a stranger". IrGael form of Barbara; pet form Baib�n (BAB-een).

Bairrfhionn - "fair-haired". Barrfind, Bairre, Barre, Barron.

Banba - according to ancient Irish legend, Ireland was first called "the island of Banba of the women". One of the three goddesses of sovereignity who Amerigin met when he invaded Ireland.

Bean Mhi - (BEN-vee) "Lady of Meath". Benvy.

Beare - name of a Spanish princess who married Eoghan Mor. A peninsula on the southwest tip of Ireland is named for her.

B�bhinn - (BEH-vin or BAY-vin) be "woman" + binn "white or fair lady; sweet, melodious". Bevin, Befind.

Becuma - a woman from the Otherworld who married Conn Cetchathach, but lusted after his son Art.

Benvy - "Lady of Meath". Bean Mhi (BEN VEE).

Berrach - "pointed or sharp". Bearrach.

Bernadette - (fem. of Bernard) "courage of a bear".

Bevin - (BAY-vin) from Old Irish be "woman" + binn "sweet, melodious" = "lady with a sweet song". Name of several early Irish queens and saints, including a 12th C. abbess of Derry. Modern Irish Bebhinn.

Bidelia - "high one". Bedelia.

Binne - (BEE-ne) from Old Irish binn "sweet, melodious". Binne was the name of several fairy women in legend.

Blair - a Celtic word meaning "from the plain". Blaire, Blayre.

Blaithin - (BLAW-heen) from Old Irish blath "flower".

Bl�thnaid - (BLA-na) from blath "flower", "blossom, flower-bud". Blathnat (BLA-nat), Blaithin (BLAW-heen), Blanaid, Florence.

Blayne - form of Blaine, "thin or lean".

Blinne - dim. of Mo-Ninne (Moninna), an Irish saint.

Boann - (BOO-an) goddess connected with healing and water.

Brazil - "brave, strong in conflict".

Breck - "freckled".

Breena - "dark hair", or "fairy palace".

Brenda - from the Irish word for "raven", and a feminine form of the male name Brendan. Brenna.

Brenna - "raven maid, dark-haired".

Bretta - "from Britain". Bret, Brett, Brit, Brite, Brittany, Brita.

Briana - (BREE-a-na) female form of Brian, probably from brig, "high, noble"; possibly "strong" and a variant of Brighid. Breanne, Brina, Breanna, Breann, Brianna, Briona, Bryna, Bryana, Riana.

Brianna - (BREE-ann-ah) form of Brian; "the strong". Briana.

Brid - (BREED) Old Irish goddess name from Celtic brig "power, renown, mighty". Most famous woman saint of Ireland is Brigid (patron saint of scholars), who was abbess of Kildare, previously the site of the shrine of a pagan goddess of the same name. In myth, there were three sister goddesses of the Tuatha De Danaan named Brigid: goddess of poetry; goddess of healing; and the goddess of smith work. Brighid (BRI-jid), Bride, Brietta, Brigid, Brigit, Bridget, Briggitte, Breeda, Berget, Bridey, Bryg, Gitta, Br�ghid (BRIDE). Nicknames - Bridie, Bidelia, Bidina, Breda.

Brina - "protector", or "speckled".

Brit - "speckled, spotted, freckled" or "strength"; form of Brittania. Version of Bretta; Britta, Brites.

Bronagh - Irish form of Dolores. Brona.

Bryg - (BREE) from Celtic root brig "high, mighty". Name borne by 13 early saints. Variant of the name Brighid.