Irina
Irina was given to 127 girls in 2025, #1,636 among girls’ names; 2,425 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,390 Americans named Irina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Irina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Irina mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Irina is “a female given name from Russian.”
Also “a transliteration of the Macedonian, Pannonian Rusyn, or Russian female given name Ирина (Irina).”
From Russian Ири́на (Irína), akin to English Irene.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Irina?
#1,636 among girls’ names, 2025
Irina rose from #2,046 in 2015 to #1,636 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 53.8 to 79.0 per million.
136 babies in 2024, the peak
Irina peaked in 2024, when 136 girls were given it, #1,562 among girls’ names. The 127 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,636 | 79.0 |
| 2024 | 136 | #1,562 | 83.9 |
| 2023 | 131 | #1,600 | 81.6 |
| 2022 | 119 | #1,746 | 72.6 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,998 | 59.1 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,931 | 61.2 |
| 2019 | 127 | #1,661 | 75.7 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,838 | 65.3 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,617 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 98 | #2,022 | 55.3 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,046 | 53.8 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,900 | 33.0 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,918 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,605 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,946 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,773 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,134 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,305 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,400 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,637 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,534 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,652 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,759 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,108 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,214 | 23.9 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,544 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,361 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,017 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,181 | 21.3 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,913 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,009 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,157 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,143 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,805 | 15.2 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,872 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,282 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,042 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,417 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,400 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,876 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,184 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,391 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,246 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,724 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,679 | 7.2 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,812 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,553 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,934 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,311 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,024 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,733 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,253 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,287 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,228 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,699 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,592 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,940 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,306 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,165 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,450 | 8.3 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,754 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,141 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,780 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,679 | 3.0 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,849 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Irina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Irina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Irina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Irina, and how old are they?
2,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,425 Americans ever recorded as Irina. The median Irina alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 23,266 people named Irina (23,243 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,715 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 130 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 301 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,320 |
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 Irina born?
The states with the most babies named Irina are California, Texas and Florida, with 67% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 27 | #1,010 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,570 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,082 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,308 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 6 | #967 | 0.2× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,127 | 2.2× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #937 | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #827 | 0.1× |
Where Irina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Irina is most over-represented in Washington: since 1944 it was given 2.2 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 Irina 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 364,075 babies since 1880, Irina is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 127 of their 608 babies (21%), again the second 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 Irina
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 Irina and names like it
- Compare Irina and IreneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIrina peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Irina since 1910.
- Russian namesWiktionary’s origin for Irina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Irina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Irina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.