Meaning not yet researched.
Ireland: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #819 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #819 in 1998; #2,224 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ireland in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,224 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #819.
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Ireland: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #819 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 345 (2009).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Ireland, making it the 2,224th most common girls’ name of the year, down 365 places from #1,859 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 108 girls named Ireland in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #819, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 345, in 2009. For comparison, it was #993 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ireland in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 6,556 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,618 babies named Ireland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,605 US girls were named Ireland; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ireland ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #636 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Irelynd are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Irelynd (210).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ireland in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #636 | #808 |
| Arizona | 8 | #777 | #892 |
| California | 6 | #2,913 | #1,153 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,971 | 5 | #12,961 |
| 2022 | 152 | #1,458 | 6 | #11,405 |
| 2021 | 154 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 2019 | 201 | #1,178 | 5 | #12,892 |
| 2018 | 203 | #1,183 | 5 | #12,920 |
| 2017 | 196 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 2016 | 226 | #1,122 | 5 | #12,960 |
| 2015 | 272 | #993 | 5 | #12,820 |
| 2014 | 271 | #984 | — | — |
| 2013 | 255 | #984 | — | — |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2011 | 250 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 2010 | 323 | #833 | 6 | #11,267 |
| 2009 | 345 | #820 | 8 | #9,307 |
| 2008 | 339 | #836 | 6 | #11,602 |
| 2007 | 319 | #875 | 8 | #9,211 |
| 2006 | 249 | #1,029 | 6 | #11,172 |
| 2005 | 244 | #1,002 | 6 | #10,601 |
| 2004 | 231 | #1,021 | 7 | #9,304 |
| 2003 | 211 | #1,062 | 5 | #11,556 |
| 2002 | 230 | #965 | 6 | #9,850 |
| 2001 | 250 | #908 | 7 | #8,651 |
| 2000 | 141 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1999 | 169 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1998 | 260 | #819 | 5 | #10,242 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,937 | 5 | #9,577 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,900 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,328 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,974 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,526 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,647 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,070 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,685 |
| 1939 | — | — | 5 | #3,713 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,257 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,426 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,475 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,505 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,549 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,345 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,613 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,247 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,240 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,262 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,682 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,077 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).