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Irene
Pronounced /aɪˈɹiːn/
Rank in 2024
#639
Born in 2024
461
Peak year
1921 · #18
Origin
Ancient Greek
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 461 girls were named Irene, about 1 in every 3,499.
- It peaked in 1921 with 10,624 babies, ranked #18.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 355,004 girls have been named Irene since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Irene per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 8.2Greatest1901–27
- 3.8Silent1928–45
- 1.4Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 168,426 babies, 8.23 per 1,000. Silent: 78,633 babies, 3.81 per 1,000. Boomers: 48,513 babies, 1.35 per 1,000. Gen X: 15,457 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,550 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,073 babies, 0.28 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,465 babies, 0.27 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Irène, from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”), name of a goddess of peace, of early Christian saints, and of an 8th-century Byzantine empress. Doublet of Eirini.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, in regular use since the 19th century.
- Origin
- Ancient Greek
- Say it
- /aɪˈɹiːn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Irene, CC BY-SA 4.0.