girls:
1.4k births since 1967
#4376 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1967
#6393 (17th percentile)
The name Mairead is the #6,393 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,350 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 17.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,376 (23.4% percentile) for all time with 1,350 births since 1967.
Mairead first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for girls in 1967). Birth data for Mairead is available in 50 out of the 57 years between 1967 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, Mairead reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #840) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 30 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mairead ranks #915 for girls (3.4% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 70.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mairead".
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Our model has identified 20 different pronunciations for the name Mairead. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 19.1% confident that Mairead is pronounced as MAH-rayd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-reed, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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