Irine

Where Irine comes from

Irine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,426 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #753
    32 babies named Irine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1912
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,477.
  4. 1943
    Irine Melikishvili born
    Georgian linguist
  5. 1971
    Irine Imerlishvili born
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Irine Imerlishvili · born 1971
  • Irine Melikishvili · Georgian linguist, 1943–2013

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.