Meaning not yet researched.
Irelynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,905 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,905 in 2008; #3,604 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Irelynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,604 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,905.
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Irelynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,905 in 2008 · most girls in one year: 111 (2008).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Irelynn, making it the 3,604th most common girls’ name of the year, down 250 places from #3,354 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 47 girls named Irelynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,905, reached in 2008. That year also had the most girls given the name: 111. For comparison, it was #1,988 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Irelynn in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 14 babies. In all, 1,740 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 891 babies named Irelynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 750 US girls were named Irelynn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 100. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Irelyn (1,594 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Eralynn, Erilynn and Irelan 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Eralynn (82), Erilynn (69), Irelan (35), Irelynne (33), Iralynn (15), Iralyn (11).
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 Irelynn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,354 | — | — |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,394 | — | — |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 2019 | 96 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,119 | — | — |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 2015 | 100 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,435 | — | — |
| 2011 | 94 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,227 | — | — |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,029 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,755 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,206 | — | — |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,431 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,462 | — | — |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,125 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,415 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,849 | — | — |
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).