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Irine

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Irine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 760th, in 1910.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
192266 births
Best rank
#760in 1910
Since 1895
1,527people given the name
Babies named Irine, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,527 girls have been named Irine in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 66 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 66 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 31%. It has spent 9 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)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Irine
1890s21
1900s131
1910s356
1920s477
1930s274
1940s139
1950s95
1960s24
1970s10

In 1922, its biggest year

Irine was the 900th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.

Names that rose and fell with Irine

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.