girl's name

Ide

  • Gender Girl
  • Syllables 1
  • Letters 3
  • Popularity Top 1000 (Ireland)
  • Births on record 317

Northern Ireland

#412

2024 births

Ide is a girl's name with 1 syllable. In 2017 it was given to 8 babies in Ireland, ranking #473. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

  • Peaked in Ireland in 2024, when 14 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade in Ireland.
  • First appears in birth records in 1965.
  • 1 syllable, with the stress on syllable 1.

Ide over time

Births per decade in Ireland, 1960s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2010s, still in progress — it covers 2010 to 2017, not a full ten years. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2017, not a full ten years.

63
'60 '70 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Ide by decade in Ireland
Decade Births
1960s 13
1970s 36
1980s 34
1990s 9
2000s 15
2010s (to 2017) 63
2020s (to 2017) 59

How popular is Ide?

In 2017, Ide was given to 8 babies in Ireland, ranking #473 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Where Ide is used

Northern Ireland #412 3 in 2024
Ireland as Íde #413 9 in 2025
France #1,112 5 in 1963
England & Wales #6,083 3 in 2023

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

Irish figures withhold any name given to fewer than three babies in a year, so a gap means the name fell below that floor rather than went unused. The Central Statistics Office began recording the síneadh fada in 2018, so accented and unaccented spellings are counted separately from that year on. Data & sources.

How Ide is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Íde Íde is a rare spelling of Ide, written with a fada and recorded 71 times, mostly in Ireland. 71

Names that peaked alongside Ide

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Ide also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Ide over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Ide in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

Amis
Ido
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Íde

Sibling names for Ide

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Ide — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Ide

How popular is the name Ide?

In 2017, Ide was given to 8 babies in Ireland, ranking #473 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.

Is Ide a girl's or a boy's name?

Ide is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

How many syllables are in Ide?

Ide has 1 syllable.

When was Ide most popular?

Ide peaked in 2024, when 14 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Ide a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Ide currently ranks #412 in Ireland. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.