Irah
#9,222 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Irah has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #9,222 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% boys, 41% girls all-time.
Babies named Irah, 2025
1 in 414,000
Irah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Irah over time
In 2025, Irah went to 38% girls and 62% 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 Irah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,222
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Irah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Irah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Irahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Irah was born before 2021 — so the typical Irah is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 61.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 86
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 61.6% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Irah 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
- −2,232
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,903
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,525
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.80×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2022 (12)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.1% average annual change
Spellings of Irah
Irah is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 34.0% against Irah's <0.01%.
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.
Irah around the world
Where Irah 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 & Wales1997–2025#4,275in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Irah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Irah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Irah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.