Hiraeth — unisex name

What the Data Says About Hiraeth

The Social Security Administration has registered 25 babies named Hiraeth between 2021 and 2023, spanning 3 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hiraeth currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Hiraeth is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 7 additional births since 2021.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hiraeth performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 25 births during that ten-year window.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hiraeth in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 25 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.