Irene

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Greek name meaning 'peace'; used by Byzantines and later imported into England and Ireland

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

Irene 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 Irene 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)

IreneLatin(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)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 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)

Greek name meaning 'peace'; used by Byzantines and later imported into England and Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Irene is read(measured from records)

Irene is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English47%

    Greek name meaning 'peace'; used by Byzantines and later imported into England and Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

    Eirene, the Greek goddess of peace, one of the Horae/Horæ; equivalent to the Roman goddess Pax.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish28%

    a female given name from Ancient Greek

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese6.5%

    a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Irene

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Irene 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 Irene 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)

Irene is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Philippines, Tanzania

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Iréne, Irené

  • Hungarian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Finland, Sweden

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Irène

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Irēne, Irène, Iréné, Irené, Iréne

  • Indonesian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written 'Irene, Irène, Irene', Iréne, Iréné

  • a separate given name7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Irène, Iréne, Irené, Îrēnë, Íréñé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Irène, Iréné, Irené

  • Turkish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek

    Also written Irène

  • English (South Africa) given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Iréne, Irené

81 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)

Irene is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from the female personal name Irene, from Greek Eirene ‘peace’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Italian, do gr. Eiréne, ‘paz’; matronímico que recorda a fundadora do clã.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

1850190019502000Louise Mountbatten, b. 1889Irene Dunne, b. 1898Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, b. 1904Princess Irene of the Netherlands, b. 1939Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, b. 1942Irene Mecchi, b. 1949Loreena McKennitt, b. 1957Irene Cara, b. 1959Elizabeth Banks, b. 1974Emily VanCamp, b. 1986

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 128 sources across 68 countries.

Official registers attesting Irene
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020143K#394
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—137K#353
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—118K#75
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—118K#37
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022110K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—109K#299
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—44K#32
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—35K#121
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—21K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20208.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—715#299
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025442—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 Irene mean, and where does it come from?
Greek name meaning 'peace'; used by Byzantines and later imported into England and Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
Is Irene a male or female name?
Irene 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 Irene?
In the etymology graph, Ирина, Irina and Iryna are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Irene have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Irene in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irene.
Where is Irene most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Irene is densest in Finland — about 1 in 261 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Irene?
In the United States, the national register counted 143,800 people named Irene in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Irene compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Irene 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, “Irene” — the 71st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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