Ireland
#2,214 for girls in 2025, 83 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 96.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 260 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,347since 1993
Ireland over time
Rank among girls' names. Ireland has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,214 | 83 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,852 | 108 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #1,456 | 152 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #1,410 | 154 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,246 | 182 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,178 | 201 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #1,181 | 203 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #1,224 | 196 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,118 | 226 | #12,185 | 5 |
| 2015 | #992 | 272 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #984 | 271 | — | |
| 2013 | #984 | 255 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,179 | 208 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,007 | 250 | — | |
| 2010 | #832 | 323 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #819 | 345 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #834 | 339 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #875 | 319 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #1,026 | 249 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #1,000 | 244 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,019 | 231 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #1,062 | 211 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #964 | 230 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #906 | 250 | #8,339 | 7 |
| 2000 | #1,335 | 141 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,154 | 169 | — | |
| 1998 | #818 | 260 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #1,983 | 72 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,930 | 74 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
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| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,480 | 5 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,115 | 8 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ireland! It came in at #13,442, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ireland is popular in 2003
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#427 · 1 in 2,007
- Wisconsin#487 · 1 in 2,792
- Oregon#618 · 1 in 3,246
- Ohio#639 · 1 in 4,483
- Alabama#694 · 1 in 3,928
Best ever in a state: #150 in South Dakota, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #427 | 9 | 1 in 2,007 |
| Wisconsin | #487 | 9 | 1 in 2,792 |
| Oregon | #618 | 5 | 1 in 3,246 |
| Ohio | #639 | 13 | 1 in 4,483 |
| Alabama | #694 | 5 | 1 in 3,928 |
| Missouri | #725 | 6 | 1 in 4,744 |
| Arizona | #781 | 8 | 1 in 4,215 |
| Pennsylvania | #826 | 9 | 1 in 6,280 |
| Georgia | #883 | 9 | 1 in 5,527 |
| Tennessee | #883 | 5 | 1 in 6,080 |
| Indiana | #921 | 5 | 1 in 6,481 |
| North Carolina | #946 | 7 | 1 in 6,214 |
| Michigan | #957 | 7 | 1 in 7,013 |
| Illinois | #1,063 | 9 | 1 in 7,699 |
| Texas | #1,119 | 20 | 1 in 7,904 |
| California | #1,172 | 25 | 1 in 9,066 |
| Florida | #1,303 | 8 | 1 in 9,977 |
| New York | #1,837 | 6 | 1 in 16,351 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ireland
- 362 spots since 2024 (#1,852 → #2,214)
- 968 spots since 2020 (#1,246 → #2,214)
- 1,222 spots since 2015 (#992 → #2,214)
- Biggest jump: 1,165 spots in 1998 (#1,983 → #818)
- Biggest drop: 336 spots in 1999 (#818 → #1,154)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 1998 at #818 (260 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2007–2010
- Highest: 1 in 5,325 girls born in 2009 were named Ireland (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,365 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #818 in 1998, was only 1 in 6,796 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.3% of all girls named Ireland (2,559) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 604 | #818 (1998) | #4,941 |
| 2000s | 2,559 | #819 (2009) | #984 |
| 2010s | 2,405 | #832 (2010) | #1,068 |
| 2020s | 779 | #1,246 (2020) | #1,691 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ireland in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 8,659 of them was named Ireland, which outranked 94.2% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 395,070 of them was named Ireland, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,867 names at #10,894; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.