girls:
188.7k births since 1882
#205 (96th percentile)
boys:
406 births since 1917
#4180 (9th percentile)
overall:
189.1k births since 1882
#406 (95th percentile)
The name Eileen is the #406 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 189,065 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 94.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #205 (96.4% percentile) for all time with 188,659 births since 1882. For boys, it ranks #4,180 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 406 births since 1917.
Eileen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for girls and 1917 for boys). Birth data for Eileen is available in 141 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (141 years for girls and 49 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Eileen has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Eileen reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 89.3% percentile (ranked #68) with 2,851 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 2,851 births per million (ranked 89.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eileen ranks #545 for girls (42.5% percentile) with 254 births per million, which is 8.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Eileen reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #557) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eileen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Eileen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Eileen is pronounced as AI-leen, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ai-LEEN, at 25.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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