Eirene
Eirene was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,221 among girls’ names; 252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eirene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Eirene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Eirene is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the sense “Peace” (literally).
From Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, literally “Peace”).
/aɪˈɹiːni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Eirene?
#7,221 among girls’ names, 2025
Eirene rose from #10,339 in 2015 to #7,221 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 9.3 per million.
18 babies in 2019, the peak
Eirene peaked in 2019, when 18 girls were given it, #6,494 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,221 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,086 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,797 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,886 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,756 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,712 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,494 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,880 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,420 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,530 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,339 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,246 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,772 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,312 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,778 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,097 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,943 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,440 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,682 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,104 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,314 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,021 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,099 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,840 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,549 | 3.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,867 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,793 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eirene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eirene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eirene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eirene, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Eirene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 302 people named Eirene (295 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 182 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 428 babies since 1880, Eirene is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 21 babies (71%), again the most given.
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 Eirene
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 Eirene and names like it
- Compare Eirene and ErineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sEirene peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eirene since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Eirene: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Eirene.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Eirene alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.