Ireene

Girls' name

Peace

Ireene has been given to 97 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1922, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Ireene, 1925

1 in 467,000

Ireene over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ireene: meaning, origin, and history

Peace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ireene means

Ireene means “peace”, associated with Eirḗnē.

Origin, language, and formation

Ireene is used in Estonian.

Ireene comes through Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Irene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 girls were recorded with the name Ireene between 1916 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,339 in 1922.

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.

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How common is Ireene?

Ireene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925: 1 in 467,000; 5 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only: 1 in 243,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 323,456 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ireene 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 1925 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 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ireene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ireenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ireene was born before 1920 — so the typical Ireene is around 105 today.

Median birth year: 1920; About 105 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 61.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Ireene 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 1922 (16)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,339; 1922

Spellings of Ireene

Ireene is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 58.8% against Ireene's 0.02%.

Irene58.8%355,462
Arlene23.7%143,010
Reese7.4%44,775
Rene3.6%21,839
Ilene3.0%17,840
Reece0.82%4,949
Erlene0.39%2,332
Reena0.38%2,318

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.

Ireene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,339; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 16 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1925
All-time count: 97
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ireene

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

Irelia Iremide Zelene Iresha Ireana Emalene Ireanna Cyrene Soulene Skylene Eirene Ireoluwa Irelan Iretta Emilene Roxene Regene Durene Iretha Kyrene Tyrene Irlene Ireri Ludene

Sibling names for Ireene

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

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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