Mairead
About 1,402 American babies have been named Mairead since 1967, most of them around 2002. In 2025 it ranked 4,265th. About 1,400 Maireads are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mairead
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,402
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 2,605th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,265th
- First recorded
- 1967
How old the living Maireads are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,402 babies given the name since 1967, about 1,400 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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.
Notable Maireads
- Mairead Maguire (born 1944)peace activist
- Mairead McGuinness (born 1959)Irish politician and European Commissioner
- Máiréad Nesbitt (born 1979)Irish Celtic, Classical and World solo violinist
- Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (born 1959)Irish singer
People named Mairead with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mairead is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mairead is most concentrated in Massachusetts (12.7×), New York (6.1×), New Jersey (3.0×), Illinois (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular girls’ names the year Mairead peaked:
Mairead elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Mairead +1 spelling | 4,075 | 46th |
| England and Wales girls | Mairead | 352 | 645th |
| Scotland girls | Mairead | 280 | 247th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Mairead | 141 | 146th |
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
Mairead against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.