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Eirene

#7,221 in 2025Girls' name

Peace, through Εἰρήνη

Eirene has been given to 252 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,221 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Eirene, 2025

1 in 221,000

Eirene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eirene: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Εἰρήνη

Ancient Greek

What Eirene means

Eirene belongs to the name family reached through Eirene → Εἰρήνη. Its meaning is “peace”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eirene is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Eirene comes through Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Εἰρήνη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Eirene is pronounced /aɪˈɹiːni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 252 girls were recorded with the name Eirene between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2019; its best national rank was #6,494 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,712 in 2020 to #7,221 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,339 in 2015 to #7,221 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Eirene?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,221
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eirene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eirene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eirenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eirene was born before 2016 — so the typical Eirene is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
252
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Eirene rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,865
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−509
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,118
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2019 (18)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,494
2019

Spellings of Eirene

Eirene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 72.0% against Eirene's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Eirene is used

Across 1910–2025, Eirene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Eirene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Eirene around the world

Where Eirene ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Eirene by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,221
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 509
Best rank ever
#6,494
2019
Peak year
2019
18 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
252
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Eirene

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Eirene

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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