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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Irish

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#13,864

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

6

All-time births

1,453

0% of them in 2025

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1960
40 births
Best rank
#1,798
in 1960
First recorded
1924
#4,193 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1974
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
97 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 196040#1,798Peak
  2. 196137#1,902
  3. 196935#2,149
  4. 195733#1,911
  5. 196332#2,102

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,798 in 1960 · peak births 40 in 1960

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 10% boys■ 90% girls

155 boys · 1,453 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Irish has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.