Given name
Ireene
“peace”
Ireene is a feminine given name from Ancient Greek, meaning “peace.” It is used in Estonian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Estonian usage, Ireene developed from Εἰρήνη.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ireene through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 97
- 0 boys · 97 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1922.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ireene’s family of names
In Estonian usage, Ireene developed from the Ancient Greek form Εἰρήνη. In Finnish usage, Ireene has a conventional equivalent in the German form Irene.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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