Irena

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Irena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 580th, in 1882.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 340.00% of girls
Peak year: 202434 births
Best rank: #580in 1882
Since 1880: 2,162people given the name

Babies named Irena, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

2,162 girls have been named Irena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 34 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 2010s alone account for 13%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Irena
1880s	50
1890s	84
1900s	104
1910s	181
1920s	146
1930s	96
1940s	91
1950s	126
1960s	137
1970s	172
1980s	167
1990s	212
2000s	183
2010s	276
2020s	137

In 2024, its biggest year

Irena was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2024 were Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Charlotte and Mia. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Irena

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.