Irie

Irie: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“positive, peaceful feeling”
Origin
Unknown
Say it
EYE-ree · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls (81% of all uses)

Irie comes from Jamaican Creole and Rastafarian usage for a state of wellbeing, peace, and harmony. As a given name it is modern, with uncertain deeper etymology.

How popular is Irie?

202448.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Irie in 2024159

2024 rank#1,644 girls

Peak year2021

Total US babies since 18803,265

Irie has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Irie

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Avauncertain; possibly bird or life · Unknown
  • Mayauncertain; often illusion or water · Unknown
  • Ailanyuncertain · Unknown
  • Alanauncertain; often linked to little rock or handsome · Unknown
  • Leiauncertain; often used as a form of Leah · Unknown
  • Londonfrom London, place name · Unknown
  • Nayeliuncertain; often said to mean I love you · Unknown
  • Elorauncertain; perhaps from Eliora or Laura · Unknown

Irie questions

What does the name Irie mean?

Irie means "positive, peaceful feeling". It comes from Unknown. Irie comes from Jamaican Creole and Rastafarian usage for a state of wellbeing, peace, and harmony. As a given name it is modern, with uncertain deeper etymology.

Is Irie a boy or girl name?

Irie is mainly a girl's name in US records (81% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Irie?

159 US babies were named Irie in 2024. Its peak year was 2021.

How do you pronounce Irie?

Irie is usually pronounced EYE-ree.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.