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How popular is “Ireland” in the USA?

Number of people named “Ireland” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Ireland” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Ireland” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ireland” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ireland” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Ireland” by birth year

This chart shows how “Ireland” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 6 0.000004236 6 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1918 8 0.000003685 8 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 5 0.00000221 5 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1928 5 0.000002211 5 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1939 5 0.000002269 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1993 5 0.000001326 5 100%
1994 8 0.000002152 8 100%
1995 16 0.000004369 16 100%
1996 79 0.00002166 74 5 87%
1997 72 0.000019858 72 100%
1998 265 0.000072046 260 5 96%
1999 169 0.000045752 169 100%
2000 141 0.000037303 141 100%
2001 257 0.000068654 250 7 95%
2002 236 0.00006313 230 6 95%
2003 216 0.000056807 211 5 95%
2004 238 0.000062289 231 7 94%
2005 250 0.000065022 244 6 95%
2006 255 0.000064456 249 6 95%
2007 327 0.000081797 319 8 95%
2008 345 0.000087771 339 6 97%
2009 353 0.000092404 345 8 95%
2010 329 0.000089021 323 6 96%
2011 250 0.000068347 250 100%
2012 208 0.000056872 208 100%
2013 255 0.000069946 255 100%
2014 271 0.000073117 271 100%
2015 277 0.000074846 272 5 96%
2016 231 0.000062965 226 5 96%
2017 196 0.000054807 196 100%
2018 208 0.00005916 203 5 95%
2019 206 0.00005935 201 5 95%
2020 182 0.000054482 182 100%
2021 154 0.000045455 154 100%
2022 157 0.000046407 151 6 92%
2023 105 0.000031711 100 5 90%
2024 108 0.000032447 108 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Ireland:

  1. Ireen
  2. Ireene
  3. Ireion
  4. Ireka
  5. Irelan
  6. Ireland (this page)
  7. Irelia
  8. Irely
  9. Irelyn
  10. Irelynd
  11. Irelynn