girls:
1.4k births since 1924
#4290 (25th percentile)
boys:
150 births since 1925
#4436 (3rd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1924
#6149 (21st percentile)
The name Irish is the #6,149 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,597 recorded births since 1924. This represents the 20.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,290 (24.9% percentile) for all time with 1,447 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,436 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 150 births since 1925.
Irish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1924 (1924 for girls and 1925 for boys). Birth data for Irish is available in 98 out of the 100 years between 1924 and 2023 (96 years for girls and 23 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 Irish has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Irish reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #736) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Irish ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 25.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Irish reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #867) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irish".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Irish is pronounced as AI-rihsh, which has 2 syllables.
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