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Saoirse

#1,089 in 2025Girls' name

Freedom

Saoirse has been given to 4,068 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,089 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 373 recorded.

Babies named Saoirse, 2025

1 in 14,900

Saoirse over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saoirse: meaning, origin, and history

Freedom

Irish

What Saoirse means

Saoirse means “freedom”, associated with saoirse.

Origin, language, and formation

Saoirse is used in English and Irish. Its origins include Irish.

Saoirse comes through Irish Saoirse.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Saoirse is pronounced /ˈsɪɚ.ʃə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,068 girls were recorded with the name Saoirse between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 373 in 2020; its best national rank was #735 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #735 in 2020 to #1,089 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,451 in 2015 to #1,089 in 2025.

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 Saoirse?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,900
222 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,240
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,089
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,352 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saoirse 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,352 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saoirse. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saoirses were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saoirse was born before 2019 — so the typical Saoirse is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,068
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (1,853).

Is Saoirse 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
−58
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−354
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+362
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.5%
Peak was 2020 (373)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#735
2020

Where Saoirse is used

Across 2016–2025, Saoirse was most concentrated in New Hampshire — about 1 in 1,333 girls, against 1 in 5,187 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 33,333).

375 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Hampshire1 in 1,333
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 1,667
  3. 3Oregon1 in 1,923
  4. 4Washington1 in 1,961
  5. 5Colorado1 in 2,273
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 2,632
  7. 7Idaho1 in 2,778
  8. 8Virginia1 in 3,030

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.

Geographically, Saoirse is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 86% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Saoirse around the world

Where Saoirse 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
    1996–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1997–2025
    #178
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2025
    #44
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1971–2025
    #17
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2019
    #6,230
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #934
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, 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 Saoirse

People whose public names include Saoirse, 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.

Saoirse by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,089
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 354
Best rank ever
#735
2020
Peak year
2020
373 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,068
Count in 2025
222

Names similar to Saoirse

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

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Names with a curve like Saoirse

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

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Sibling names for Saoirse

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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