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Ireneo

Boys' name

Peace, through Ireneo

Ireneo has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1980, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ireneo, 1991

1 in 779,000

Ireneo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ireneo: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Ireneo

Spanish

What Ireneo means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Ireneo is used in Cebuano and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Ireneo comes through Spanish Ireneo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ireneo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Ireneo is pronounced /iɾeˈneo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Ireneo between 1931 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1980; its best national rank was #4,031 in 1931.

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 Ireneo?

Ireneo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 779,000
5 of 3,892,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 404,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
539,676 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ireneo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ireneo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ireneos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ireneo was born before 1980 — so the typical Ireneo is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
28.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 28.6% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Ireneo 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (6)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,031
1931

Spellings of Ireneo

Ireneo is not the most common spelling — Rene is, with 83.8% against Ireneo's 0.03%.

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.

Ireneo around the world

Where Ireneo 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.

  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #536
    in 1966

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ireneo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,031
1931
Peak year
1980
6 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ireneo

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

IremideIrenaeusErineoIredellIreonIreoluwaYoneoIretomiwaIreyIrenTsuneoIrelandAntoneoIreMuneoIrineoIreneNeo

Sibling names for Ireneo

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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