Girl · Greek
Eirini
Say it: ee-REE-nee
Meaning
Greek eirene 'peace'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 46 babies given this name since 2005
- At its height in 2016, about 1 in 147,400 girls
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Greece800 BC to 146 BC
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Irini, Rena
| English | Irene |
|---|---|
| Romanian | Irina |
Famous bearers
- Irene of Athens, Byzantine empress
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Where this comes from
- Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
- Royal and noble genealogies
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.