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Irina

#1,636 in 2025Girls' name

Peace, through Ири́на

Irina has been given to 2,425 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #1,636 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 136 recorded.

Babies named Irina, 2025

1 in 26,100

Irina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Irina: meaning, origin, and history

Peace, through Ири́на

Russian

What Irina means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Russian Ири́на (Irína), akin to English Irene.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Irina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Irina is used in English, Finnish, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. Its origins include Russian.

Irina comes through Russian Ири́на.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ири́на and Irene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Irina is pronounced /ˈirinɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,425 girls were recorded with the name Irina between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 136 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,562 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,931 in 2020 to #1,636 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,046 in 2015 to #1,636 in 2025.

How common is Irina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,100
127 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,636
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,095 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Irina 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Irina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Irinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Irina was born before 2014 — so the typical Irina is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,420
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (739).

Is Irina 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
−74
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+295
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+410
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.4%
Peak was 2024 (136)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,562
2024

Spellings of Irina

Irina is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 11.5% against Irina's 0.08%.

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.

Where Irina is used

Across 2016–2025, Irina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 14,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 9,091
  2. 2Washington1 in 9,091
  3. 3Texas1 in 10,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 12,500
  5. 5Florida1 in 12,500
  6. 6New York1 in 12,500
  7. 7Colorado1 in 25,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Irina around the world

Where Irina 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
    1998–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1931–2025
    #404
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #377
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Irina

People whose public names include Irina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Irina in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Irina. Linked forms have their own page here.

IrenIriaIrinErinaIreenIrenaIreneIrineIriniIrynaIrèneIriina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Irina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,636
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 295
Best rank ever
#1,562
2024
Peak year
2024
136 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,425
Count in 2025
127

Names similar to Irina

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

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Names with a curve like Irina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Irina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RivkyYehudisAriesKairaRamseyZinniaHalimaSafaMalkyZarahAmalZaynab

Sibling names for Irina

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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