# Ireland (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ireland/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,556 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 209 / 6,347 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 13, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 250 | 1,008 |
| 2012 | 208 | 1,183 |
| 2013 | 255 | 984 |
| 2014 | 271 | 984 |
| 2015 | 272 | 993 |
| 2016 | 226 | 1,122 |
| 2017 | 196 | 1,226 |
| 2018 | 203 | 1,183 |
| 2019 | 201 | 1,178 |
| 2020 | 182 | 1,251 |
| 2021 | 154 | 1,413 |
| 2022 | 152 | 1,458 |
| 2023 | 100 | 1,971 |
| 2024 | 108 | 1,859 |
| 2025 | 83 | 2,224 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 6 | 9,850 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11,556 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,304 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,601 |
| 2006 | 6 | 11,172 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,211 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,602 |
| 2009 | 8 | 9,307 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,267 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,820 |
| 2016 | 5 | 12,960 |
| 2018 | 5 | 12,920 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,892 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,405 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,961 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 3,824 |
| 2000 | 4 | 3,247 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |

## People named Ireland

- Ireland Baldwin, American fashion model

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.