Irenè

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Irenè is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 71st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”).

  • FIFinland1 in 261(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 288
  • ESSpain1 in 423

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 Irenè 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.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

#273 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
542 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 261 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
IrenèLatin(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, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 3 more, Irine in KE Kenya, GE Georgia, אירן in HU Hungary and Ειρηνη in GR Greece.

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)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”).

Cited for this meaning 9

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Irenè 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 Irenè is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#134≈160,000 est.≈1 in 8111.2KIrene194
PH Philippines#71≈160,000 est.≈1 in 724—Irene142
US United States#224143,8001 in 2.3K143KIrene542
KE Kenya#90≈130,000 est.≈1 in 429—Irine61
ES Spain#83118,1931 in 423118KIrene238
HU Hungary—48,125as Irén1 in 20348Kאירן4
GR Greece#79≈39,000 est.≈1 in 264308Ειρηνη145
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Irenè under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Irenè mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, “peace”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
Is Irenè a male or female name?
Irenè is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Which countries have the most people named Irenè?
Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Irenè in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irene. After it come Philippines, United States, Kenya and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Irenè most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Irenè is densest in Finland — about 1 in 261 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Irenè?
In the United States, the national register counted 143,800 people named Irenè in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Irenè compared with other names?
In Mexico, Irenè is the 134th most common given name of 193,485 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, “Irenè” — the 134th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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