Irah
Irah is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#15,814 among girls’ names and #9,222 among boys’, #13,841 among all names counting both); 146 Americans have been recorded with it since 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Irah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Irah?
#9,222 among boys’ names, 2025
Irah fell from #7,697 in 2015 to #9,222 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
23 babies in 2024, the peak
Irah peaked in 2024, when 23 babies were given it (12 boys, #6,990 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 57% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,814 | 8 | #9,222 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,173 | 12 | #6,990 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,094 | 8 | #9,234 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,252 | 12 | #6,974 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,185 | 7 | #10,131 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,666 | 6 | #11,125 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 5 | #12,884 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,610 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,292 | |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,247 | 6 | #11,245 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,493 | 10 | #7,697 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,260 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,026 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Irah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 146 Americans recorded as Irah, 41% are girls and 59% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Irah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Irah, and how old are they?
An estimated 145 Americans named Irah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 151 people named Irah (76 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 56 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 63,073 babies since 1880, Irah is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 568 babies (2.3%), again the third 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 Irah
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 Irah and names like it
- Compare Irah and IraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIrah peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Irah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Irah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.