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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 Irish Gaelic uncertain Hebrew Old Irish Latin

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317 names, most popular first in United States

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Fionn Fionn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fair" or "white," and by extension bright or blessed.
Boy Irish #4,179 in US
Fallyn Peaked in 2015 · 1,714 births since 1981
Girl Irish #4,273 in US
Noreen Peaked in 1948 · 23,259 births since 1892
Girl Irish #4,282 in US
Noland Peaked in 2021 · 1,783 births since 1912
Boy Irish #4,416 in US
Muriel Muriel means bright sea, from Gaelic, and it reached English twice — once through Irish and Scottish settlement and once through Breton, carried back across the Channel by the Normans.
Girl Irish #4,420 in US
Maureen Maureen is the Irish Máirín, a diminutive of Máire, which is itself the Irish form of Mary.
Girl Irish #4,441 in US
Oisin Oisin is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little deer" or "fawn," from the Irish os, a deer.
Boy Irish #4,566 in US
Eoghan Eoghan is a boy's name of Irish origin usually read as "born of the yew," and it gives County Tyrone its Irish name.
Boy Irish #5,047 in US
Conall Conall is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "strong wolf," borne by the Ulster Cycle hero who avenges Cú Chulainn.
Boy Irish #5,056 in US
Doreen Doreen has two possible parents and neither is settled — an Irish Doireann whose own meaning is disputed, or Dora with an Irish diminutive attached, which would make it a nineteenth-century construction.
Girl Irish #5,130 in US
Fergus Fergus is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "man of vigor," and its bearer's exile is what sets the Táin in motion.
Boy Irish #5,135 in US
Oran Oran is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little dun one," the anglicized spelling of Odhrán, whose saint was the first buried at Iona.
Boy Irish #5,163 in US
Kaelan Peaked in 1998 · 3,781 births since 1987
Unisex Irish #5,204 in US
Malone Malone is an Irish surname meaning descendant of a follower of Saint John, now used as a given name.
Boy Irish #5,207 in US
Caoimhe Caoimhe is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "gentle," "beautiful" or "precious," from the Irish caomh.
Girl Irish #5,302 in US
Ruairi Ruairi is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "red king," borne by Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the last High King of Ireland.
Boy Irish #5,422 in US
Tully Peaked in 2023 · 1,342 births since 1900
Unisex Irish #5,815 in US
Kellie Kellie has no settled meaning — the Irish Ceallach has been read as bright-headed, as strife, and as one who frequents churches, and the three readings are not close to reconciling.
Girl Irish #6,236 in US
Aodhan Aodhan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little fire," from Aodh, the name of a fire god.
Boy Irish #6,237 in US
Rafferty Rafferty is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "floodtide" or "abundance."
Boy Irish #6,257 in US
Codie Peaked in 1991 · 6,744 births since 1916
Unisex Irish #6,295 in US
Daire Daire is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fruitful" or "fertile," borne by the man who owns the brown bull at the center of Ireland's national epic. It ranks 48th in Northern Ireland.
Boy Irish #6,576 in US
Kelli Kelli respells Kelly, an Irish surname whose meaning is contested — bright-headed and strife are both proposed for Ó Ceallaigh, and neither has ever been established.
Girl Irish #6,771 in US
Fintan Peaked in 1971 · 2,929 births since 1964
Boy Irish #6,837 in US
Rua Rua is a name from the Irish word for red or red-haired, used for both boys and girls.
Unisex Irish #6,921 in US
Riordan Peaked in 2013 · 402 births since 1986
Boy Irish #6,936 in US
Senan Senan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little old one," understood as little wise one.
Boy Irish #7,077 in US
Colm Peaked in 1984 · 9,985 births since 1964
Boy Irish #7,111 in US
Kelley Kelley is the same Irish name as Kellie, spelled differently, and the two split its births between them — this one peaked in 1968 and that one in 1969, a year apart at nearly the same size.
Unisex Irish #7,207 in US
Éabha Éabha is a girl's name of Irish origin, the Irish form of Eve, meaning "life" or "living one."
Girl Irish #7,560 in US
Kelia Peaked in 2013 · 4,805 births since 1988
Girl Irish #7,588 in US
Deirdre Peaked in 1961 · 29,427 births since 1921
Girl Irish #7,930 in US
Meabh Meabh is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "she who intoxicates," from a root connected with mead.
Girl Irish #8,075 in US
Conlan Peaked in 2005 · 1,302 births since 1987
Boy Irish #8,544 in US
Lorcan Lorcan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little fierce one," from the Irish lorc. It ranks 55th in Northern Ireland and belongs to the patron saint of Dublin, who was archbishop when the Normans took the city.
Boy Irish #8,631 in US
Faolan Faolan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little wolf," from faol — the word for the wild animal specifically, not the hound.
Boy Irish #8,670 in US
Darragh Darragh is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "oak" or "oak grove," from the Irish dair.
Boy Irish #8,874 in US
Torran Peaked in 1997 · 147 births since 1996
Boy Irish #8,988 in US
Kealan Peaked in 1997 · 1,238 births since 1976
Boy Irish #9,012 in US
Shauna Peaked in 1979 · 40,111 births since 1938
Girl Irish #9,263 in US
Keelin Peaked in 2002 · 2,210 births since 1956
Unisex Irish #9,443 in US
Eilish Peaked in 1981 · 1,827 births since 1964
Girl Irish #9,721 in US
Padraig Padraig is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "nobleman," the Irish form of Patrick.
Boy Irish #10,061 in US
Lochlainn Lochlainn is a boy's name of Gaelic origin meaning "land of the lochs," which was the Irish name for Scandinavia — so in use it meant Viking.
Boy Irish #10,272 in US
Clodagh Clodagh is a girl's name of Irish origin taken from the River Clodiagh in County Tipperary.
Girl Irish #10,345 in US
Finian Peaked in 2005 · 936 births since 1998
Boy Irish #10,394 in US
Ailish Peaked in 1981 · 2,440 births since 1964
Girl Irish #11,227 in US
Tayron Peaked in 2019 · 1,934 births since 1995
Boy Irish #11,421 in US

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