Irine

given name · Latin script

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

/iɾine/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Irine 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 288as Irene(measured from records)
  • GEGeorgia1 in 407as ირინე
  • ESSpain1 in 423as Irene

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 Irine 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 named Irene, 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 203 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, as Irén

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)

Locally spelled Irene in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 3 more 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Irine 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 Irine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#71≈160,000 est.≈1 in 669—Irene142
US United States#224143,800as Irene1 in 2.3K143KIrene542
ES Spain#83118,193as Irene1 in 423118KIrene238
KE Kenya#90≈110,000 est.≈1 in 466—Irine61
BR Brazil#198109,806as Irene1 in 1.9K137KIrene146
HU Hungary#90448,125as Irén1 in 20348Kאירן4
SE Sweden#18535,428as Irene1 in 28835KIrene87
FI Finland—21,307as Irene1 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)

Irine is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Irinê, Iriné

  • French given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Cameroon

    Also written Iriné, Îrïne, Îrine

  • Russian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ирине, Иринэ, Ірине, Іріне

39 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)

Irine 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.

  • In Latin, vocative masculine singular of īrinus

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

  • In izh, whining, squeaking

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

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)

194019601980Irine Melikishvili, b. 1943Irina Gabashvili, b. 1960Irine Kvachadze, b. 1962Irine Kurdadze, b. 1968Irine Darchia, b. 1972Irina Pruidze, b. 1976

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)

InformalHi Irine,

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 31 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Irine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020561#19,044
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022538—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—517#12,709
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1980506—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1970437—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—357#17,699
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—341#9,717
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1960317—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1950160—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1950157—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)1960120—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)194093—

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Irine?
A machine transcription gives /iɾine/ (IPA) for Swahili.
Is Irine a male or female name?
Irine 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 Irine?
In the etymology graph, Irene, Irina and Irena are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Irine have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Irene in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Irine most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Irine itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 203 people named Irén.
How common is the name Irine?
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 Irine compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Irine 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, “Irine” — the 71st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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