Hiraeth
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hiraeth has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 2021. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.
Babies named Hiraeth, 2023
1 in 474,000
Hiraeth over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Hiraeth over time
In 2023, Hiraeth went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Hiraeth?
Hiraeth had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hiraeth sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hiraeth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hiraeths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hiraeth was born before 2022 — so the typical Hiraeth is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 25
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Hiraeth 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2022 (10)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Hiraeth by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Hiraeth
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hiraeth
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.