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Eithne

#13,669 in 2025Girls' name

Grain, kernel, through Eithne

Eithne has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #13,669 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Eithne, 2025

1 in 553,000

Eithne over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Eithne: meaning, origin, and history

Grain, kernel, through Eithne

Old Irish and Middle Irish

What Eithne means

Eithne belongs to the name family reached through Eithne → Eithne. Its meaning is “grain, kernel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Eithne is used in Irish, Middle Irish, Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Its origins include Old Irish and Middle Irish.

Eithne comes through Middle Irish Eithne and Old Irish Eithne.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eðna and Eithne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Irish, Eithne is pronounced /ˈɛnʲə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Eithne between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #13,669 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 Eithne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,669
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Eithne 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Eithne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Eithnes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Eithne was born before 2025 — so the typical Eithne is around 0 today.

Median birth year
2025
About 0 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Eithne 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (6)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,669
2025

Spellings of Eithne

Eithne is not the most common spelling — Eilene is, with 99.5% against Eithne's 0.52%.

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.

Eithne around the world

Where Eithne 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
    1996–2015
    #3,252
    in 2015
  • Scotland
    1997–1997
    #653
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    1964–2013
    #894
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1991–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Eithne by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,669
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#13,669
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Eithne

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

EitanaStephneDejahneKahneYahneJohneTajahneEithelJahneEthneDaphne

Sibling names for Eithne

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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