Saoirse
Saoirse is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 242 births. Its best rank was 735th, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2420.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 2020373 births
- Best rank
- #735in 2020
- Since 1993
- 3,842people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,842 girls have been named Saoirse in the United States since 1993, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 373 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 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 48%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2020, its biggest year
Saoirse was the 735th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Saoirse
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ariyahpeak 2023
- Novaleepeak 2024
- Aviannapeak 2021
- Raelynnpeak 2022
- Journeepeak 2021
- Amilapeak 2023
- Ripleypeak 2022
- Blakelynpeak 2021
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.