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Irene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 442 in 2025. Its best rank was #16 in 1919.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #16 in 1919; #651 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Irene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#651 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1919, at #16.
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Irene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 442 girls in 2025. Peak: #16 in 1919 · most girls in one year: 10,624 (1921).
In 2025, 442 US girls were named Irene, making it the 651st most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #635 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 465 girls named Irene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #16, reached in 1919. The most girls given the name in a single year was 10,624, in 1921. For comparison, it was #629 in 2015 and #92 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Irene in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 204 babies with the name. In all, 356,812 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 93,192 babies named Irene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,587 US girls were named Irene; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 508. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Irene ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #359 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ira (62,535 babies since 1880), Irina (2,425 babies since 1880), Arina (1,189 babies since 1880) and Eren (2,440 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ena, Irena and Iran are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Rena.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Catalan, Dutch, English, Galician, Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ena (3,587), Irena (2,186), Iran (1,775), Irine (1,528), Erina (1,040), Irean (485), Eirene (252), Iria (100), Erine (100), Ireene (97), Iren (83), Eirini (76), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 6 | #359 | — |
| California | 88 | #374 | #343 |
| Oregon | 9 | #410 | #401 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #425 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #441 | #435 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #493 | #460 |
| Texas | 61 | #523 | #718 |
| Washington | 13 | #525 | #531 |
| Iowa | 6 | #526 | #382 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #535 | #977 |
| Virginia | 13 | #586 | #642 |
| Indiana | 11 | #592 | #641 |
| Missouri | 8 | #680 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #685 | #1,251 |
| Illinois | 14 | #689 | #546 |
| Michigan | 11 | #702 | #1,361 |
| Utah | 5 | #752 | #587 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #757 | #699 |
| Georgia | 13 | #766 | #999 |
| Arizona | 8 | #778 | #512 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #839 | #633 |
| New York | 19 | #842 | #583 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #866 | #733 |
| Florida | 18 | #890 | #916 |
| Ohio | 10 | #913 | #1,003 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 442 | #651 | — | — |
| 2024 | 465 | #635 | — | — |
| 2023 | 435 | #675 | 5 | #12,962 |
| 2022 | 448 | #661 | — | — |
| 2021 | 438 | #674 | — | — |
| 2020 | 472 | #620 | — | — |
| 2019 | 469 | #633 | — | — |
| 2018 | 466 | #639 | — | — |
| 2017 | 508 | #588 | — | — |
| 2016 | 444 | #659 | — | — |
| 2015 | 453 | #629 | — | — |
| 2014 | 432 | #663 | — | — |
| 2013 | 439 | #644 | — | — |
| 2012 | 437 | #652 | — | — |
| 2011 | 406 | #692 | — | — |
| 2010 | 411 | #695 | — | — |
| 2009 | 484 | #625 | — | — |
| 2008 | 483 | #638 | — | — |
| 2007 | 468 | #636 | — | — |
| 2006 | 496 | #588 | — | — |
| 2005 | 491 | #580 | — | — |
| 2004 | 531 | #536 | — | — |
| 2003 | 475 | #581 | — | — |
| 2002 | 546 | #504 | — | — |
| 2001 | 573 | #487 | — | — |
| 2000 | 606 | #459 | — | — |
| 1999 | 555 | #474 | — | — |
| 1998 | 522 | #487 | — | — |
| 1997 | 595 | #431 | — | — |
| 1996 | 614 | #415 | — | — |
| 1995 | 610 | #426 | — | — |
| 1994 | 598 | #419 | 6 | #8,160 |
| 1993 | 546 | #458 | — | — |
| 1992 | 592 | #426 | — | — |
| 1991 | 651 | #392 | — | — |
| 1990 | 686 | #385 | — | — |
| 1989 | 637 | #390 | 5 | #8,393 |
| 1988 | 641 | #376 | — | — |
| 1987 | 654 | #362 | — | — |
| 1986 | 596 | #387 | 8 | #5,053 |
| 1985 | 669 | #352 | 8 | #4,873 |
| 1984 | 736 | #320 | 7 | #5,194 |
| 1983 | 749 | #307 | 5 | #6,674 |
| 1982 | 773 | #315 | 7 | #5,260 |
| 1981 | 799 | #304 | 6 | #5,793 |
| 1980 | 850 | #291 | 9 | #4,283 |
| 1979 | 798 | #298 | — | — |
| 1978 | 708 | #323 | — | — |
| 1977 | 760 | #313 | 6 | #5,410 |
| 1976 | 773 | #295 | 5 | #5,957 |
| 1975 | 723 | #315 | — | — |
| 1974 | 846 | #285 | 7 | #4,349 |
| 1973 | 847 | #287 | 6 | #4,746 |
| 1972 | 792 | #307 | 7 | #4,162 |
| 1971 | 970 | #290 | — | — |
| 1970 | 1,072 | #275 | 5 | #5,034 |
| 1969 | 1,108 | #262 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,173 | #238 | 7 | #3,496 |
| 1967 | 1,196 | #240 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,287 | #235 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,556 | #211 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,663 | #210 | 8 | #3,141 |
| 1963 | 1,761 | #201 | 8 | #3,170 |
| 1962 | 1,760 | #205 | 9 | #2,933 |
| 1961 | 1,912 | #193 | 8 | #3,213 |
| 1960 | 2,035 | #187 | 8 | #3,199 |
| 1959 | 2,098 | #179 | 6 | #3,772 |
| 1958 | 2,152 | #175 | 9 | #2,916 |
| 1957 | 2,260 | #169 | 9 | #2,909 |
| 1956 | 2,341 | #159 | 8 | #3,074 |
| 1955 | 2,433 | #147 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 1954 | 2,656 | #140 | 16 | #1,998 |
| 1953 | 2,800 | #127 | 12 | #2,341 |
| 1952 | 3,018 | #121 | 11 | #2,432 |
| 1951 | 3,395 | #105 | 7 | #3,202 |
| 1950 | 3,825 | #92 | 14 | #2,069 |
| 1949 | 2,955 | #111 | 8 | #2,889 |
| 1948 | 3,043 | #111 | 14 | #2,065 |
| 1947 | 3,293 | #107 | 12 | #2,304 |
| 1946 | 3,115 | #102 | 14 | #1,986 |
| 1945 | 2,883 | #97 | 10 | #2,317 |
| 1944 | 3,087 | #91 | 19 | #1,603 |
| 1943 | 3,299 | #85 | 9 | #2,642 |
| 1942 | 3,383 | #80 | 19 | #1,652 |
| 1941 | 3,370 | #74 | 12 | #2,133 |
| 1940 | 3,394 | #73 | 29 | #1,263 |
| 1939 | 3,331 | #74 | 12 | #2,113 |
| 1938 | 3,554 | #72 | 15 | #1,858 |
| 1937 | 3,674 | #62 | 26 | #1,321 |
| 1936 | 3,817 | #57 | 27 | #1,282 |
| 1935 | 3,940 | #52 | 21 | #1,518 |
| 1934 | 4,346 | #49 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 1933 | 4,506 | #46 | 39 | #1,039 |
| 1932 | 5,200 | #43 | 20 | #1,620 |
| 1931 | 5,616 | #37 | 30 | #1,265 |
| 1930 | 6,464 | #33 | 38 | #1,145 |
| 1929 | 7,039 | #29 | 42 | #1,065 |
| 1928 | 7,731 | #28 | 43 | #1,069 |
| 1927 | 8,606 | #21 | 37 | #1,188 |
| 1926 | 9,169 | #21 | 42 | #1,103 |
| 1925 | 9,440 | #19 | 32 | #1,290 |
| 1924 | 9,928 | #18 | 29 | #1,395 |
| 1923 | 10,054 | #17 | 37 | #1,185 |
| 1922 | 10,173 | #17 | 37 | #1,188 |
| 1921 | 10,624 | #18 | 33 | #1,281 |
| 1920 | 10,072 | #17 | 24 | #1,569 |
| 1919 | 9,712 | #16 | 33 | #1,241 |
| 1918 | 9,774 | #16 | 22 | #1,627 |
| 1917 | 9,163 | #17 | 25 | #1,415 |
| 1916 | 9,035 | #17 | 25 | #1,398 |
| 1915 | 8,323 | #17 | 16 | #1,832 |
| 1914 | 6,197 | #22 | 14 | #1,731 |
| 1913 | 5,335 | #21 | 12 | #1,627 |
| 1912 | 4,646 | #22 | 27 | #865 |
| 1911 | 3,502 | #21 | 8 | #1,333 |
| 1910 | 3,281 | #21 | 12 | #956 |
| 1909 | 2,961 | #20 | 11 | #923 |
| 1908 | 2,732 | #23 | 8 | #1,065 |
| 1907 | 2,617 | #22 | 16 | #647 |
| 1906 | 2,423 | #20 | 6 | #1,183 |
| 1905 | 2,357 | #24 | 6 | #1,164 |
| 1904 | 2,212 | #26 | 7 | #1,017 |
| 1903 | 2,001 | #28 | 8 | #876 |
| 1902 | 2,210 | #26 | 11 | #712 |
| 1901 | 1,879 | #30 | 14 | #543 |
| 1900 | 2,264 | #31 | 9 | #940 |
| 1899 | 1,703 | #34 | 9 | #751 |
| 1898 | 1,902 | #34 | 9 | #779 |
| 1897 | 1,587 | #38 | 10 | #704 |
| 1896 | 1,593 | #41 | — | — |
| 1895 | 1,428 | #43 | 5 | #1,168 |
| 1894 | 1,347 | #43 | 5 | #1,164 |
| 1893 | 1,111 | #51 | 6 | #965 |
| 1892 | 1,107 | #51 | 7 | #904 |
| 1891 | 950 | #52 | — | — |
| 1890 | 893 | #60 | — | — |
| 1889 | 737 | #63 | — | — |
| 1888 | 722 | #66 | 5 | #1,103 |
| 1887 | 504 | #73 | — | — |
| 1886 | 437 | #78 | — | — |
| 1885 | 376 | #82 | — | — |
| 1884 | 324 | #95 | — | — |
| 1883 | 260 | #100 | — | — |
| 1882 | 232 | #104 | — | — |
| 1881 | 206 | #102 | — | — |
| 1880 | 204 | #102 | — | — |
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).