Ireland
Ireland was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,224 among girls’ names; 6,556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,410 Americans named Ireland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ireland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ireland?
#2,224 among girls’ names, 2025
Ireland fell from #993 in 2015 to #2,224 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.05 per 1,000.
353 babies in 2009, the peak
Ireland peaked in 2009, when 353 babies were given it (345 girls, #820 among girls’ names). The 83 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,224 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,859 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,971 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,458 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 154 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,251 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 201 | #1,178 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 203 | #1,183 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 196 | #1,226 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,122 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 272 | #993 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 271 | #984 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 255 | #984 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,183 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 250 | #1,008 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 323 | #833 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 345 | #820 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 339 | #836 | 0.18 |
| 2007 | 319 | #875 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 249 | #1,029 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 244 | #1,002 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 231 | #1,021 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 211 | #1,061 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 230 | #964 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 250 | #907 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,337 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,152 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 260 | #819 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,992 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,935 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,780 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,894 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,322 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ireland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,556 Americans recorded as Ireland, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 83 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Ireland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ireland, and how old are they?
6,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,556 Americans ever recorded as Ireland. The median Ireland alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 5,437 people named Ireland (5,254 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 106 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,420 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ireland born?
The states with the most babies named Ireland are Arizona, South Carolina and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 8 | #777 | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #636 | 0.3× |
| California | 6 | #2,913 | 0.9× |
Where Ireland is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ireland is most over-represented in Utah: since 1914 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ireland with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,766 babies since 1880, Ireland is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 83 babies (100%), 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 Ireland
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 Ireland and names like it
- Compare Ireland and IrelyndBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sIreland peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ireland since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Ireland.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ireland alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with IMost given first.