Iréne

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'

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

/ire:n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Iréne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 71st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 288(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 423
  • KEKenya≈1 in 466

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Iréne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

#273 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
542 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 261 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IréneLatin(measured from records)
אירןHebrew(measured from records)
ΕιρηνηGreek(measured from records)
ไอริณThai(measured from records)
আইরিনBengali(measured from records)
ირინეGeorgian(measured from records)
이렌Hangul(measured from records)
እሬኔEthiopic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Irene in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 3 more, Irine in KE Kenya, GE Georgia and אירן in HU Hungary.

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)

Form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Iréne 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 Iréne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#71≈160,000 est.≈1 in 669—Irene142
US United States#224143,8001 in 2.3K143KIrene542
ES Spain#83118,1931 in 423118KIrene238
KE Kenya#90≈110,000 est.≈1 in 466—Irine61
BR Brazil#198109,8061 in 1.9K137KIrene146
HU Hungary#90448,125as Irén1 in 20348Kאירן4
SE Sweden#18535,4281 in 28835KIrene87
FI Finland—21,3071 in 26144KIrene39
GE Georgia#1089,827as ირინე1 in 4079.8KIrine52

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)

Iréne is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada

    Also written Irene, Irène, Irené, Îrēnë, Íréñé

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Irene, Irēne, Irène, Iréné, Irené

23 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Iréne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Variante de Irène, du grec eirēnē « paix ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Iréne Söderblom, b. 1921Iréne Gleston, b. 1931Iréne Vestlund, b. 1933Iréne Matthis, b. 1940Iréne Johansson, b. 1947Iréne Vestman, b. 1951Cecilia Schelin Seidegård, b. 1954Iréne Svenonius, b. 1967Iréne Moneeo, b. 1972Camilla Brodin, b. 1979

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)

InformalHej Iréne,Hi Iréne, (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 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Iréne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11K#385
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20032.6K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20042.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19992.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20002.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20082.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20022.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20012.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20092.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20062.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20102.5K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20052.5K—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Iréne mean, and where does it come from?
Form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
How do you pronounce Iréne?
A machine transcription gives /ire:n/ (IPA) for Swedish.
Is Iréne a male or female name?
Iréne 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.
In which country does Iréne have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Iréne in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irene.
Where is Iréne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Iréne is densest in Finland — about 1 in 261 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Iréne?
In the United States, the national register counted 143,800 people named Iréne in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Iréne compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Iréne is the 71st most common given name of 486,299 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, “Iréne” — the 71st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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