Irelyn

#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births

Peak · girls
2008 · 176 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,594
since 1996

Irelyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Irelyn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202008peak #1,368, 2008girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#4,35232
2024#3,45945
2023#3,47645
2022#3,47045
2021#2,78461
2020#2,19682
2019#2,50870
2018#2,81060
2017#2,96455
2016#2,38578
2015#2,71265
2014#2,32379
2013#2,50871
2012#2,80562
2011#2,48373
2010#2,11893
2009#1,687132
2008#1,368176
2007#2,89062
2006#3,61743
2005#4,26732
2004#4,17233
2003#6,29918
2002#5,89719
2001#5,00923
2000#10,7458
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First appearance
1996

The first year at least five girls were named Irelyn! It came in at #10,567, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1997, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Irelyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 893 spots since 2024 (#3,459#4,352)
  • 2,156 spots since 2020 (#2,196#4,352)
  • 1,640 spots since 2015 (#2,712#4,352)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1996
  • Peaked 2008 at #1,368 (176 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,744
  • Highest: 1 in 10,744 girls born in 2008 were named Irelyn (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 50,227 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 44.3% of all girls named Irelyn (706) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s32#6,360 (1998)#8,577
2000s546#1,368 (2008)#4,595
2010s706#2,118 (2010)#2,562
2020s310#2,196 (2020)#3,290

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Irelyn in 2008

girls
#1,368
176 births · 1 in 10,744 girls

Top girls' names in 2008

  1. #1Emma18,830
  2. #2Isabella18,629
  3. #3Emily17,448
  4. #4Olivia17,088
  5. #5Ava17,051
  6. #6Madison17,047
  7. #7Sophia16,091
  8. #8Abigail15,088
  9. #9Elizabeth12,027
  10. #10Chloe11,836
  11. #1,368Irelyn176
More about 2008

girls

1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,744 of them was named Irelyn, which outranked 93.3% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Irelyn
  1. #1,359Nova178
  2. #1,366Jaela177
  3. #1,366Julieta177
  4. #1,368Irelyn176
  5. #1,368Aida176
  6. #1,368Braylee176
  7. #1,368Caitlynn176
  8. #1,374Aleigha175
  9. #1,374Alexys175
  10. #1,374Amayah175

Tied with 5 names at #1,368; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2007
Risers
  1. 9,375Dayami#10,129#754
  2. 4,524Allisson#4,944#420
  3. 1,019Alisson#1,804#785
  4. 851Milagros#1,579#728
  5. 807Mareli#1,530#723
Fallers
  1. 391Kelis#968#1,359
  2. 390Joselin#755#1,145
  3. 378Tyra#947#1,325
  4. 363Montana#932#1,295
  5. 337Allyssa#988#1,325

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2008