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Irish Names

Irish names carry the widest gap on this site between how they look and how they sound, because Irish spelling records a sound system English does not have. Many arrive in two forms: the Irish spelling and an anglicization made by a clerk writing down what he heard. Both are in use, often in the same family, and neither is the wrong one.

Languages behind these names Irish uncertain Irish Gaelic Old Irish Hebrew Latin

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317 names, most popular first in United States

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Bryant Bryant means noble or high, and the t is a French accident — Norman scribes added it to the Irish Brian, so the surname carries a letter the original name never had.
Boy Irish #1,327 in US
Cara Cara is a girl's name with two independent sources: the Italian cara, meaning "dear" or "beloved," and the Irish cara, meaning "friend."
Girl Irish #1,329 in US
Tyrone Tyrone means Eoghan's land, an Irish county, and it reached American use almost entirely through one actor — Tyrone Power, whose grandfather took the name from the county his family came from.
Boy Irish #1,391 in US
Micheal Micheal is a boy's name of Hebrew origin whose full form is a rhetorical question — who is like God?
Boy Irish #1,404 in US
Ciara Ciara is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "dark" or "black-haired," the feminine of Ciarán.
Girl Irish #1,409 in US
Finnian Peaked in 2016 · 4,351 births since 1993
Boy Irish #1,486 in US
Barry Barry is a boy's name from an Irish surname generally traced to a word for a spear, though a Welsh island gives a competing route.
Boy Irish #1,526 in US
Dwayne Dwayne means the little dark one, from an Irish surname built on the word for black — the same root that gives Dublin its name, which means the black pool the city grew around.
Boy Irish #1,570 in US
Ciaran Ciaran is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little dark one," borne by two of Ireland's twelve apostles.
Boy Irish #1,613 in US
Eamon Peaked in 2016 · 8,319 births since 1919
Boy Irish #1,649 in US
Conan Conan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little hound" or "little wolf," from the Irish cú with a diminutive ending.
Boy Irish #1,681 in US
Alannah Alannah is a girl's name from the Irish term of endearment a leanbh, meaning "O child," so it began as something said to a baby rather than something anyone was called.
Girl Irish #1,683 in US
Niall Niall is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unresolved, and its bearer's descendants supplied most of Ireland's High Kings for six centuries.
Boy Irish #1,701 in US
Oskar Peaked in 2012 · 10,556 births since 1996
Boy Irish #1,744 in US
Neal Neal has no agreed meaning — champion, cloud and passionate are all proposed for the Irish Niall and none is established.
Boy Irish #1,909 in US
Shaun Shaun spells the Irish Seán phonetically for English readers, and it is the same name as John — the Irish took it from Norman French Jehan rather than directly from Latin, which is why it sounds nothing like John.
Boy Irish #1,943 in US
Fiadh Fiadh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "wild" or "deer," from the Irish fia.
Girl Irish #1,993 in US
Kyan Peaked in 2004 · 6,751 births since 1974
Boy Irish #2,032 in US
Siobhan Peaked in 1971 · 22,431 births since 1964
Girl Irish #2,094 in US
Aoife Aoife is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "beautiful" or "radiant."
Girl Irish #2,118 in US
Orrin Peaked in 1915 · 6,455 births since 1880
Boy Irish #2,271 in US
Regan Peaked in 2001 · 27,022 births since 1920
Unisex Irish #2,296 in US
Caitlin Caitlin is a girl's name of Greek origin, the Irish form of Katherine, and its English mispronunciation generated a whole family of new names.
Girl Irish #2,332 in US
Shannon Shannon is a name from Ireland's longest river, and it is 86 percent female in our records.
Unisex Irish #2,397 in US
Kerry Kerry is 53 percent female in our records — the fourth-closest to an even split on this site, behind only Emerson, Riley and Jackie.
Unisex Irish #2,454 in US
Caitlyn Caitlyn is the third spelling of one name on this site, alongside Caitlin and Kaitlin — all descend from Catherine by way of Old French and Irish, and all three are large enough to hold separate pages.
Girl Irish #2,504 in US
Orla Orla is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "golden princess."
Girl Irish #2,537 in US
Duane Duane means the little dark one, from an Irish surname built on the word for black — and that same root also gives us Dublin, which means the black pool that the city originally grew up around.
Boy Irish #2,603 in US
Mikey Mikey is a boy's name of Hebrew origin, a diminutive of Michael, and the full name is a rhetorical question rather than a statement.
Boy Irish #2,630 in US
Sheila Sheila is the Irish form of Cecilia, meaning blind — and parents outside Ireland should know it became Australian slang for a woman in the nineteenth century, which is why it barely charts there.
Girl Irish #2,680 in US
Roisin Roisin is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "little rose," from rós with a diminutive ending.
Girl Irish #2,697 in US
Reilly Peaked in 1997 · 12,118 births since 1953
Unisex Irish #2,714 in US
Eoin Eoin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the older of Irish's two forms of John, taken directly from Latin rather than through Norman French.
Boy Irish #2,804 in US
Mona Mona in Mona Lisa is not a name — it contracts ma donna, my lady, so the painting's title is closer to Madam Lisa than to anyone actually called Mona.
Girl Irish #2,806 in US
Colleen Colleen means girl in Irish, and it is barely used in Ireland — it is an Irish-American name rather than an Irish one.
Girl Irish #2,845 in US
Caelan Caelan is a boy's name of Irish origin, usually derived from caol, slender, or read as a form of Caolán.
Unisex Irish #2,921 in US
Roran Peaked in 2024 · 535 births since 2007
Boy Irish #2,991 in US
Eamonn Peaked in 1976 · 5,120 births since 1964
Boy Irish #3,311 in US
Lochlann Lochlann is a boy's name that was the Irish word for Scandinavia and, by extension, for a Viking.
Boy Irish #3,366 in US
Tyron Peaked in 1990 · 10,254 births since 1938
Boy Irish #3,454 in US
Niamh Niamh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."
Girl Irish #3,518 in US
Torrin Peaked in 2007 · 1,209 births since 1968
Boy Irish #3,520 in US
Tadhg Tadhg is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "poet" or "storyteller."
Boy Irish #3,677 in US
Aisling Aisling is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "dream" or "vision," and it names a whole genre of Irish political poetry.
Girl Irish #3,783 in US
Tiernan Tiernan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little lord," and its most famous bearer's marriage troubles are traditionally blamed for bringing the Normans to Ireland.
Boy Irish #3,784 in US
Aine Aine is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "radiance" or "brightness," borne by a goddess of sovereignty and midsummer in Munster.
Girl Irish #3,803 in US
Enya Peaked in 2014 · 4,213 births since 1996
Girl Irish #4,050 in US
Kaitlin Kaitlin reached English through Irish, not from it — Catherine went into Old French as Cateline, into Irish as Caitlín, and back out again respelled.
Girl Irish #4,171 in US

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