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Iridiana vs Irie

American parents have registered 3,382 Iries since 1880, against 159 Iridianas. Irie is still ahead, with 116 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Iridiana against Irie, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Iridiana Irie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 57 years in which either name was published, Irie for 56 years and Iridiana for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Iridiana Irie
Total US births 1593,382
Most in one year 61206
Babies in 2025 5116
Estimated living today 1603,200
Median age today 299
Peak year 19952015
Best rank 2,189th girls1,302nd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd2,002nd
First recorded 19951915
Girls / boys 159 / 02,755 / 627

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Iridianas alive today are over 29; half the Iries are over 9. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Iridiana and Irie.