Ireland
Ireland is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. Its best rank was 819th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1080.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2009345 births
- Best rank
- #819in 1998
- Since 1993
- 6,472people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,263 girls have been named Ireland in the United States since 1993, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 345 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 41%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 209 boys have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Ireland was the 820th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2009 were Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia and Ava. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Ireland
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Naiyapeak 2014
- Eriannapeak 2009
- Myahpeak 2009
- Aiyanapeak 2010
- Rileepeak 2008
- Kamrynpeak 2008
- Jailahpeak 2011
- Makennapeak 2005
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.