Girl · Irish
Saoirse
Say it: SEER-shuh
Meaning
Modern Irish saoirse 'freedom, liberty'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Taken up as a given name in 20th-century Ireland and now widely known abroad.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 2,663 babies given this name since 1993
- At its height in 2020, about 1 in 4,400 girls
- 366 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today 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.