Irené
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/ireːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Irené is a female given name 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 Irené 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)
- #273 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 542 (measured from records)
- 1 in 261 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Irené 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #134 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 811 | 1.2K | Irene | 194 |
| PH Philippines | #71 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 724 | — | Irene | 142 |
| US United States | #224 | 143,800 | 1 in 2.3K | 143K | Irene | 542 |
| KE Kenya | #90 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 429 | — | Irine | 61 |
| ES Spain | #83 | 118,193 | 1 in 423 | 118K | Irene | 238 |
| HU Hungary | — | 48,125as Irén | 1 in 203 | 48K | אירן | 4 |
| GR Greece | #79 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | 308 | Ειρηνη | 145 |
| SE Sweden | #185 | 35,428 | 1 in 288 | 35K | Irene | 87 |
| FI Finland | — | 21,307 | 1 in 261 | 44K | Irene | 39 |
| GE Georgia | #108 | 9,827as ირინე | 1 in 407 | 9.8K | Irine | 52 |
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,413 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 91 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 90 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 89 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 85 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 84 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Irené a male or female name?
- Irené 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 does the name Irené 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.
- How do you pronounce Irené?
- In Swedish /ireːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Irené have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Irené in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irene.
- Where is Irené most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Irené is densest in Finland — about 1 in 261 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Irené?
- In the United States, the national register counted 143,800 people named Irené in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Irené compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Irené is the 134th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iren%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Irené” — the 134th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.