Irl
Last seen for boys in 1970 at #4,230
- Peak · boys
- 1889 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 554since 1887
Irl over time
Rank among boys' names. Irl has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| rank | births | |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | — | |
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| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | #2,111 | 13 |
| 1949 | #2,225 | 12 |
| 1948 | #2,115 | 13 |
| 1947 | #2,671 | 9 |
| 1946 | #2,534 | 9 |
| 1945 | — | |
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| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,523 | 9 |
| 1941 | #1,997 | 13 |
| 1940 | #3,459 | 5 |
| 1939 | #2,449 | 9 |
| 1938 | #2,646 | 8 |
| 1937 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1936 | #2,629 | 8 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,121 | 12 |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | #1,995 | 14 |
| 1931 | #2,651 | 9 |
| 1930 | #2,444 | 11 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1926 | #2,436 | 12 |
| 1925 | #2,435 | 12 |
| 1924 | #2,473 | 12 |
| 1923 | #2,123 | 15 |
| 1922 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1921 | #1,829 | 19 |
| 1920 | #2,052 | 16 |
| 1919 | #2,385 | 12 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #1,900 | 16 |
| 1916 | #2,926 | 8 |
| 1915 | #1,878 | 15 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,746 | 9 |
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| 1898 | #1,002 | 6 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,101 | 5 |
| 1895 | #795 | 8 |
| 1894 | #594 | 12 |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | #641 | 11 |
| 1891 | #635 | 9 |
| 1890 | #667 | 9 |
| 1889 | #581 | 11 |
| 1888 | #815 | 7 |
| 1887 | #583 | 10 |
| 1886 | — | |
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| 1883 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Irl! It came in at #583, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1893, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Irl is popular in 1887
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Irl
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1970
- Biggest jump: 234 spots in 1889 (#815 → #581)
- Biggest drop: 306 spots in 1896 (#795 → #1,101)
- Debuted 1887
- Peaked 1889 at #581 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1893, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 8 yrs · run 1887–1892
- Highest: 1 in 9,647 boys born in 1894 were named Irl (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 309,705 boys born in 1970 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #581 in 1889, was only 1 in 10,053 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 23.8% of all boys named Irl (132) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 28 | #581 (1889) | #660 |
| 1890s | 60 | #594 (1894) | #776 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 70 | #1,746 (1912) | #2,256 |
| 1920s | 132 | #1,829 (1921) | #2,367 |
| 1930s | 87 | #1,995 (1932) | #2,491 |
| 1940s | 70 | #1,997 (1941) | #2,503 |
| 1950s | 73 | #2,111 (1950) | #3,172 |
| 1960s | 28 | #3,559 (1967) | #3,865 |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,230 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Irl in 1887
Top boys' names in 1887
More about 1887
boys
101,410 boys got a published name in 1887; 1 in 10,141 of them was named Irl, which outranked 45.4% of the 1,067 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).