Irish
Irish is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196040 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1924
- 1,602people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,447 girls have been named Irish in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 155 boys have also been given it, 9.7% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Irish | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 32 | |
| 1930s | 64 | |
| 1940s | 109 | |
| 1950s | 243 | |
| 1960s | 283 | |
| 1970s | 163 | |
| 1980s | 155 | |
| 1990s | 121 | |
| 2000s | 146 | |
| 2010s | 101 | |
| 2020s | 30 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Irish was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Irish
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maripeak 1957
- Raelenepeak 1959
- Juliannpeak 1961
- Valeriepeak 1959
- Lynnapeak 1963
- Collettepeak 1966
- Mimipeak 1961
- Raylenepeak 1961
Other spellings in the data
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.