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Irine

Girls' name

Form of Irene

Irine has been given to 1,528 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 66 recorded.

Babies named Irine, 1978

1 in 635,000

Irine over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Irine: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Irene

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Irine means

Irine is a form of Irene.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Irine is used in Georgian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Irine → Irene. The family’s meaning is “peace”, recorded in English with the source elements Eirḗnē.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Irene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,528 girls were recorded with the name Irine between 1895 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1922; its best national rank was #760 in 1910.

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 Irine?

Irine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 635,000
5 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,961 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Irine 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 1978 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 439,961 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Irine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Irines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Irine was born before 1925 — so the typical Irine is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
130
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Choose a decade

1920s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (477).

Is Irine 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (66)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#760
1910

Spellings of Irine

Irine is not the most common spelling — Irene is, with 36.2% against Irine's 0.16%.

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 Irine is used

Across 1910–2025, Irine was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 96,184 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Kentucky1 in —

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. Irine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Irine around the world

Where Irine 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.

  • France
    2001–2009
    #5,719
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1957–1963
    #644
    in 1963

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Irine 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
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Best rank ever
#760
1910
Peak year
1922
66 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
1,528
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Irine

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

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Sibling names for Irine

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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