Muireann
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Muireann has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2008, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Muireann, 2015
1 in 740,000
Muireann 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Muireann?
Muireann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Muireann sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muireann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Muireanns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Muireann was born before 2008 — so the typical Muireann is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Muireann 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 2008 (5)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Muireann around the world
Where Muireann 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 & Wales2000–2017#4,763in 2017
- Scotland2008–2023#749in 2023
- Northern Ireland2005–2025#397in 2025
- Ireland1965–2025#196in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.
Muireann by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Muireann
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Muireann
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.