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Baby Girl Names - Eileen
The name Eileen is of Irish Gaelic origin, and means shining or bright.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Eileen has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to
2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social
Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular
names given to baby girls in each of these years.
Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Eileen
| Use of the Name Eileen for Girls During the Last ... |
| 125 Years |
50 Years |
25 Years |
10 Years |
5 Years |
2 Years |
1 Year |
| 181,089 |
62,307 |
11,712 |
3,905 |
1,923 |
742 |
356 |
The table below indicates the number of times the name Eileen has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Eileen first appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1882, which is the first year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.
Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Eileen
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Used as a Girl Name |
Used as a Boy Name |
| Year |
Rank | Count |
Rank | Count |
| 1882 | 840 | 6 | | |
| 1883 | 956 | 5 | | |
| 1884 | | | | |
| 1885 | 958 | 6 | | |
| 1886 | 579 | 15 | | |
| 1887 | 593 | 15 | | |
| 1888 | 695 | 14 | | |
| 1889 | 578 | 20 | | |
| 1890 | 700 | 15 | | |
| 1891 | 760 | 13 | | |
| 1892 | 461 | 35 | | |
| 1893 | 477 | 32 | | |
| 1894 | 465 | 36 | | |
| 1895 | 428 | 44 | | |
| 1896 | 425 | 46 | | |
| 1897 | 376 | 59 | | |
| 1898 | 345 | 81 | | |
| 1899 | 340 | 77 | | |
| 1900 | 368 | 85 | | |
| 1901 | 322 | 87 | | |
| 1902 | 325 | 91 | | |
| 1903 | 311 | 101 | | |
| 1904 | 294 | 120 | | |
| 1905 | 302 | 124 | | |
| 1906 | 258 | 161 | | |
| 1907 | 266 | 168 | | |
| 1908 | 242 | 199 | | |
| 1909 | 240 | 216 | | |
| 1910 | 240 | 258 | | |
| 1911 | 213 | 332 | | |
| 1912 | 202 | 470 | | |
| 1913 | 183 | 613 | | |
| 1914 | 158 | 918 | | |
| 1915 | 132 | 1,493 | | |
| 1916 | 118 | 1,857 | | |
| 1917 | 107 | 2,144 | | |
| 1918 | 110 | 2,262 | | |
| 1919 | 103 | 2,344 | | |
| 1920 | 100 | 2,716 | | |
| 1921 | 100 | 2,862 | | |
| 1922 | 96 | 2,936 | | |
| 1923 | 95 | 2,980 | | |
| 1924 | 93 | 3,070 | | |
| 1925 | 96 | 2,964 | | |
| 1926 | 92 | 2,924 | | |
| 1927 | 91 | 2,927 | | |
| 1928 | 102 | 2,642 | | |
| 1929 | 98 | 2,557 | | |
| 1930 | 109 | 2,376 | | |
| 1931 | 106 | 2,226 | | |
| 1932 | 114 | 2,114 | | |
| 1933 | 115 | 2,004 | | |
| 1934 | 109 | 2,222 | | |
| 1935 | 108 | 2,199 | | |
| 1936 | 103 | 2,319 | | |
| 1937 | 107 | 2,342 | | |
| 1938 | 113 | 2,283 | | |
| 1939 | 115 | 2,158 | | |
| 1940 | 125 | 2,033 | | |
| 1941 | 121 | 2,190 | | |
| 1942 | 88 | 3,116 | | |
| 1943 | 68 | 4,084 | | |
| 1944 | 73 | 3,641 | | |
| 1945 | 70 | 3,635 | | |
| 1946 | 80 | 4,163 | | |
| 1947 | 91 | 4,240 | | |
| 1948 | 91 | 3,832 | | |
| 1949 | 95 | 3,724 | | |
| 1950 | 91 | 3,883 | | |
| 1951 | 95 | 3,814 | | |
| 1952 | 100 | 3,735 | | |
| 1953 | 107 | 3,630 | | |
| 1954 | 115 | 3,679 | | |
| 1955 | 120 | 3,505 | | |
| 1956 | 123 | 3,438 | | |
| 1957 | 120 | 3,713 | | |
| 1958 | 125 | 3,524 | | |
| 1959 | 127 | 3,623 | | |
| 1960 | 130 | 3,495 | | |
| 1961 | 131 | 3,490 | | |
| 1962 | 139 | 3,057 | | |
| 1963 | 141 | 2,938 | | |
| 1964 | 153 | 2,584 | | |
| 1965 | 157 | 2,417 | | |
| 1966 | 168 | 2,042 | | |
| 1967 | 179 | 1,793 | | |
| 1968 | 197 | 1,580 | | |
| 1969 | 211 | 1,475 | | |
| 1970 | 245 | 1,281 | | |
| 1971 | 276 | 1,036 | | |
| 1972 | 278 | 921 | | |
| 1973 | 281 | 869 | | |
| 1974 | 308 | 761 | | |
| 1975 | 336 | 663 | | |
| 1976 | 369 | 560 | | |
| 1977 | 348 | 633 | | |
| 1978 | 344 | 630 | | |
| 1979 | 386 | 567 | | |
| 1980 | 377 | 614 | | |
| 1981 | 387 | 583 | | |
| 1982 | 400 | 580 | | |
| 1983 | 332 | 690 | | |
| 1984 | 372 | 613 | | |
| 1985 | 403 | 559 | | |
| 1986 | 409 | 537 | | |
| 1987 | 465 | 469 | | |
| 1988 | 440 | 514 | | |
| 1989 | 467 | 524 | | |
| 1990 | 464 | 527 | | |
| 1991 | 553 | 424 | | |
| 1992 | 579 | 403 | | |
| 1993 | 585 | 401 | | |
| 1994 | 608 | 369 | | |
| 1995 | 604 | 371 | | |
| 1996 | 615 | 372 | | |
| 1997 | 597 | 379 | | |
| 1998 | 554 | 447 | | |
| 1999 | 592 | 413 | | |
| 2000 | 628 | 400 | | |
| 2001 | 623 | 402 | | |
| 2002 | 667 | 379 | | |
| 2003 | 677 | 386 | | |
| 2004 | 733 | 356 | | |
| Totals: | | 181,089 | | 0 |
During the last 125 years, parents have used Eileen as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a boy's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Eileen appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 124 times during the last 125 years.
See the Social Security card applications information for qualifiers about the data shown on this page.
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