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How popular is the name Saoirse?
Births per year, rank history and how many Saoirses are alive today.
Saoirse (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 402nd in 2025 with 102 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2020, when 151 babies were given the name, the 307th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 443 in 2024 before climbing back to the 402nd place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Saoirse you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Saoirses born in England and Wales are between 5 and 19, and there are at least 2,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Saoirse - on average, only one in every 137 such rooms contains a Saoirse.
How many babies are named Saoirse each year?
Where does Saoirse rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Saoirse most popular?
Saoirse peaked in 2020, when 151 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Saoirse?
At least 2,300 people named Saoirse born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Saoirse?
Most living Saoirses are between 5 and 19; the most common age is about 5.
Is Saoirse becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.