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Croía
Croía (also Croíadh; both /ˈkriːə/), are feminine given names derived from the Irish word croí meaning "heart".[1][2] Croía by 2023 had risen to 23rd most popular girl's name in the Republic of Ireland, and 59th in Northern Ireland.[3][4] Isolated instances (one or two babies per annum registered with the name) were noted by NISRA (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) in 1998 (Croia), 2004 (Croiagh), 2005, 2016, and 2017 (Croiadh).[n 1][4] The first year in which the Central Statistics Office recorded more than three babies registered with either name in the Republic was 2018.[3] Maitiú Ó Coimín comments that Croía and its variants are not Irish words, and that the root word Croí has also been used occasionally as a name (7 boys and 3 girls in 2019).[1] Many friends of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's wife Sorcha are given extravagantly Irish names to satirise a certain middle-class view of Irishness;[5] a 2018 column featured one named Croia who found Sorcha's Guys and Dolls fancy-dress theme gender binarist.[6] Conor McGregor's daughter born in January 2019 was named Croía, which Her.ie at the time described as "unique";[7] later commentators have suggested McGregor's choice might have helped its subsequent increased popularity.[8][1]
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