girls:
1.5k births since 1996
#4229 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1996
#6229 (19th percentile)
The name Irelyn is the #6,229 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,516 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 19.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,229 (26.0% percentile) for all time with 1,516 births since 1996.
Irelyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996). Birth data for Irelyn is available in 27 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Irelyn reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 17.4% percentile (ranked #813) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 84 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Irelyn ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 29.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irelyn".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Irelyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.9% confident that Irelyn is pronounced as IRE-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-ruh-leen, at 15.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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