Irvine
Irvine is a boy's name that peaked in 1915, when it was the 1,181st most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 250 Irvines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Irvine boys named Irvine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 904
- Estimated living today
- 250
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 1,181st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 899
How old the living Irvines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 904 babies given the name since 1883, about 250 are alive — 28 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Probably from cel words cognate with Welsh ir, yr (“green, fresh”) + afon (“water”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Irvines
- Irvine Welsh (born 1958)Scottish writer
- Irvine Robertson (1882–1956)Canadian rower
People named Irvine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Irvine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Irvine is most concentrated in California (5.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Irvine peaked:
Irvine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Irvine | 60 | 1,939th |
| Scotland boys | Irvine | 45 | 405th |
| France girls | Irvine | 5 | 5,711th |
| England and Wales boys | Irvine | 3 | 4,527th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Irvine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.