Irie
Irie is given to both girls and boys: 95 girls and 21 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,009 among girls’ names and #4,771 among boys’, #3,207 among all names counting both); 3,382 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,240 Americans named Irie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Irie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Irie?
#2,009 among girls’ names, 2025
Irie fell from #1,304 in 2015 to #2,009 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.06 per 1,000.
206 babies in 2015, the peak
Irie peaked in 2015, when 206 babies were given it (184 girls, #1,304 among girls’ names). The 116 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | #2,009 | 21 | #4,771 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,650 | 34 | #3,414 |
| 2023 | 144 | #1,502 | 21 | #4,792 |
| 2022 | 131 | #1,618 | 24 | #4,348 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,298 | 21 | #4,684 |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,619 | 32 | #3,447 |
| 2019 | 136 | #1,576 | 19 | #5,027 |
| 2018 | 167 | #1,350 | 27 | #3,924 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,426 | 30 | #3,617 |
| 2016 | 148 | #1,530 | 24 | #4,242 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 184 | #1,304 | 22 | #4,450 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,504 | 23 | #4,307 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,620 | 14 | #6,030 |
| 2012 | 118 | #1,749 | 17 | #5,333 |
| 2011 | 87 | #2,179 | 11 | #7,175 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,279 | 14 | #6,154 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,655 | 15 | #5,917 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,385 | 15 | #5,879 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,554 | 21 | #4,551 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,525 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,831 | 9 | #7,882 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,122 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,243 | 11 | #6,417 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,014 | 8 | #7,928 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,359 | 6 | #9,725 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,222 | 13 | #5,387 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,360 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,845 | 13 | #4,980 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,709 | 8 | #6,841 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,647 | 6 | #8,321 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,383 | 8 | #6,611 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,271 | 5 | #9,367 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,994 | 8 | #6,439 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,300 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,912 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,109 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,253 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,198 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #3,909 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,521 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,646 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,789 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 6 | #3,437 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 9 | #2,652 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #3,891 | |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,118 | 8 | #2,972 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,829 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,742 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 6 | #3,961 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #3,942 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,649 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,635 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,612 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,472 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,143 | 5 | #4,465 |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,465 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 5 | #4,084 |
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 Irie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,382 Americans recorded as Irie, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Irie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Irie, and how old are they?
3,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,382 Americans ever recorded as Irie. The median Irie alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,115 people named Irie (1,718 women and girls, 397 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 948 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,170 |
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 Irie born?
The states with the most babies named Irie are California, Florida and Arizona, with 88% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 27 | #1,009 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,998 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,124 | 1.4× |
| Utah | 5 | #753 | 1.0× |
Where Irie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Irie is most over-represented in California: since 1915 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 Irie 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,999 babies since 1880, Irie is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 116 of their 196 babies (59%), 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 Irie
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 Irie and names like it
- Compare Irie and IrhaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sIrie peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Irie since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Irie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Irie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.