Irl
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Irl has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1887. 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 1921, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Irl, 1970
1 in 601,000
Irl 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Irl?
Irl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1970
- 1 in 601,000
- 6 of 3,606,302 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 310,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1970
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 416,617 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Irl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1970 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 416,617 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Irl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Irls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Irl was born before 1928 — so the typical Irl is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 107
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (132).
Is Irl 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 1921 (19)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.8% average annual change
Where Irl is used
Across 1910–2025, Irl was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 573,606 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Irl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Irl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Irl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Irl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.