Daire
Daire was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,531 among boys’ names; 272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daire?
#6,531 among boys’ names, 2025
Daire rose from #8,175 in 2015 to #6,531 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 7.6 per million.
32 babies in 2020, the peak
Daire peaked in 2020, when 32 boys were given it, #3,433 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,531 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,002 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,133 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,674 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,377 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,433 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,830 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,906 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,059 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,430 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,175 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,012 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,084 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,210 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,959 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,280 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,157 | 3.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,142 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,607 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 272 Americans recorded as Daire, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Daire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daire, and how old are they?
An estimated 270 Americans named Daire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 226 people named Daire (90 women and girls, 136 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 143 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,836 babies since 1880, Daire is the third most given (9.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 53 babies (25%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daire
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Daire and names like it
- Compare Daire and DarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDaire peaked in 2020.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daire since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Daire.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Daire alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.