Irine
Irine was last recorded in 1978, when 5 babies were given it; 1,528 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Irine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Irine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,330, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1922, the peak
Irine peaked in 1922, when 66 girls were given it, #900 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 5 | #10,330 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,459 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,524 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,946 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,943 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,668 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,234 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,664 | 4.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,310 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,528 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 8 | #4,419 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,737 | 8.5 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,647 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,343 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,823 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,481 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,047 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,686 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,260 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,235 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,504 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,291 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,827 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,218 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,236 | 12.2 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,758 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,616 | 20.8 |
| 1937 | 23 | #1,601 | 21.6 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,908 | 16.3 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,396 | 26.7 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,387 | 26.8 |
| 1933 | 27 | #1,421 | 26.8 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,434 | 26.2 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,153 | 36.6 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,172 | 36.4 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,378 | 27.8 |
| 1928 | 43 | #1,169 | 37.3 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,146 | 37.7 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,121 | 38.8 |
| 1925 | 60 | #963 | 49.3 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,267 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 51 | #1,069 | 42.3 |
| 1922 | 66 | #900 | 55.0 |
| 1921 | 49 | #1,084 | 39.7 |
| 1920 | 46 | #1,110 | 38.4 |
| 1919 | 56 | #947 | 49.6 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,113 | 38.0 |
| 1917 | 42 | #1,101 | 38.8 |
| 1916 | 44 | #1,046 | 42.1 |
| 1915 | 38 | #1,106 | 38.6 |
| 1914 | 37 | #977 | 48.6 |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,078 | 41.6 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,509 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 23 | #913 | 55.0 |
| 1910 | 32 | #760 | 80.7 |
| 1909 | 11 | #1,330 | 31.7 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,233 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 15 | #1,011 | 47.1 |
| 1906 | 15 | #981 | 50.8 |
| 1905 | 23 | #767 | 78.9 |
| 1904 | 14 | #977 | 50.8 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,095 | 42.0 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,166 | 37.9 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,398 | 29.2 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,076 | 43.4 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,226 | 34.3 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,355 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,497 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Irine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Irine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Irine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Irine, and how old are they?
An estimated 244 Americans named Irine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 73 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 561 people named Irine (561 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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).
Where are babies named Irine born?
The states with the most babies named Irine are Mississippi, Texas and Georgia, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 156 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Texas | 72 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 55 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 36 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 26 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 25 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Irine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Irine is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 5.2 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 Irine 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 363,806 babies since 1880, Irine is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 615 babies recorded by SSA was a Irine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Irine
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 Irine and names like it
- Compare Irine and IreneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sIrine peaked in 1922.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Irine since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Irine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Irine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with IMost given first.