Irén

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Irene

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ireːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Irén is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 203(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 470K
  • NONorway1 in 4.9K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Hungary (measured from records)

48,125 people, 2025

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
150 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 203 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IrénLatin(measured from records)
ИреньCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Iren in US United States, NO Norway, ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name, equivalent to English Irene

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Irén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Irén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#35648,1251 in 20348KIrén52
NO Norway—1,1051 in 4.9K3.9KIren32
SE Sweden—8161 in 13K816Irén16
US United States—7071 in 470K562Iren150
ES Spain—901 in 556K90Iren10
HR Croatia—421 in 101K42——
FI Finland—321 in 174K71—3

48,125 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Irén is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Iren, Ireñ, Irèn

  • a separate given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, India, Sweden

    Also written Iren, Irèn

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Iren, Irėn, Irèn

  • Croatian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Croatia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Iren

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Norway, Belgium

    Also written Iren, Irèn, Ireñ

  • Hungarian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Romania, Russia

    Languages: Hungarian, Armenian, Chinese

    Also written Iren, I-Ren, Irèn, ირენ, I人

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

    Also written Iren, Irën

14 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Irén Révay, b. 1871Irén Varsányi, b. 1877Irén Gál, b. 1890Irén Daruházi-Karcsics, b. 1927Irén Psota, b. 1929Irén Hönsch, b. 1932Irén Mészáros, b. 1933Irén Henrik, b. 1937Irén Bordán, b. 1953Irén Lovász, b. 1961

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalSzia Irén,Hi Irén, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Irén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201179K#15
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201277K#16
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201375K#16
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201571K#16
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201668K#16
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201766K#16
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201864K#16
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201962K#18
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202352K#22
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202450K#23
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202548K#23
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade19503.1K#9

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Irén mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, equivalent to English Irene Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Irén?
A machine transcription gives /ireːn/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
Is Irén a male or female name?
Irén is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Irén?
In the etymology graph, Irene, Irina and Iryna are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Irén have the most bearers?
In Hungary, the national register counted about 48 thousand people named Irén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irén.
Where is Irén most common?
Irén is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 203 people carrying it.
How common is the name Irén?
In Hungary, the national register counted 48,125 people named Irén in 2025, about 1 in 203 residents.
How common is Irén compared with other names?
In Hungary, Irén is the 356th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Irén” — the 356th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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