Irene
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Greek name meaning 'peace'; used by Byzantines and later imported into England and Ireland
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 68 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/aɪˈɹiːn/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Irene 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.
- 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 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.
- 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)Greek name meaning 'peace'; used by Byzantines and later imported into England and Ireland.
Cited for this meaning 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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Irene, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
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.
| 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).
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)- Louise Mountbattenb. 1889SEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Sweden (1950-1965)
- Irene Dunneb. 1898USAmerican actress and singer (1898–1990)
- Princess Irene, Duchess of Aostab. 1904GRGreek princess, Queen consort of Croatia, Duchess of Aosta (1904–1974)
- Princess Irene of the Netherlandsb. 1939NLDutch princess; second child of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard (born 1939)
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmarkb. 1942ESPrincess of Greece and Denmark (1942–2026)
- Irene Mecchib. 1949USAmerican writer for television, movies, newspapers, and Broadway (born 1949)
- Loreena McKennittb. 1957CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician and composer
- Irene Carab. 1959USAmerican singer and actress (1959–2022)
- Elizabeth Banksb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and director
- Emily VanCampb. 1986CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
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)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)128 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 68 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 143K | #394 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 118K | #75 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 118K | #37 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44K | #32 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35K | #121 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 21K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 8.8K | — |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 1.2K | #99 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 442 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 328 | #394 |
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. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Irene?
- It depends on the language: in English /aɪˈɹiːn/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /iˈɾe.ne/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /iˈɾe.ne/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Irene have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Irene in Mexico, 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 Mexico 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 Mexico, Irene is the 134th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Irene?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ireneThe 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, “Irene” — the 134th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.