Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Irja” in the USA?

Number of people named “Irja” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Irja” 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 “Irja” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Irja” by birth year

This chart shows how “Irja” 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
1910 6 0.000010157 6 100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 100%
1914 10 0.00000706 10 100%
1915 17 0.000009277 17 100%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 100%
1919 18 0.00000853 18 100%
1920 10 0.00000442 10 100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 100%
1924 5 0.000002099 5 100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Irja:

  1. Irit
  2. Irita
  3. Iriyah
  4. Iriyana
  5. Iriz
  6. Irja (this page)
  7. Irl
  8. Irlan
  9. Irland
  10. Irlanda
  11. Irlene