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Eirene

Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Eirene is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

What does Eirene mean?

Greek

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Eirene a girl's or a boy's name?

Eirene is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Eirene in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,131st among girls
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 27% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Eirene, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.

2025 had more girls named Eirene than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Eirene in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

1971Busiest: 18 in 20192025
Eirene in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202411#8,941
202310#9,611
202210#9,674
202110#9,557
202017#6,625
201918#6,410
201814#7,758
201713#8,295
201613#8,390
201510#10,143
20149#10,949
201311#9,607
20120–
201112#9,146
20105#16,985
20095#17,288
20088#12,574
20075#17,630
20066#15,147
20050–
20040–
20030–
20026#13,589
20018#11,013
20008#10,738
19995#14,403
19985#14,116
19976#12,065
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19815#10,409
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19717#6,617

Names like Eirene

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Eirene: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/eirene, updated 20 October 2026.