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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1965)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1965. Republic of Irelandpublishes a girls' list and a boys' list separately, so they are shown separately — there is no official combined ranking, and Namewise does not invent one.

This source has published 62 complete rankings, from 1964 to 2025. Data sources · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Girls' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1965

  1. 1Mary
  2. 2Margaret
  3. 3Catherine
  4. 4Anne
  5. 5Ann
  6. 6Elizabeth
  7. 7Geraldine
  8. 8Patricia
  9. 9Bridget
  10. 10Caroline
  11. 11Deirdre
  12. 12Helen
  13. 13Jacqueline
  14. 14Sandra
  15. 15Bernadette
  16. 16Martina
  17. 17Eileen
  18. 18Kathleen
  19. 18Susan
  20. 20Teresa
  21. 21Angela
  22. 22Nora
  23. 23Linda
  24. 24Pauline
  25. 25Carmel
  26. 26Brigid
  27. 27Fiona
  28. 28Karen
  29. 29Marie
  30. 30Anna
  31. 31Ellen
  32. 32Sharon
  33. 33Joan
  34. 34Josephine
  35. 34Siobhán
  36. 36Maria
  37. 37Carol
  38. 38Paula
  39. 39Orla
  40. 40Lorraine
  41. 41Sarah
  42. 42Yvonne
  43. 43Frances
  44. 44Sheila
  45. 45Barbara
  46. 45Julia
  47. 47Christina
  48. 48Colette
  49. 49Valerie
  50. 50Rose
  51. 51Denise
  52. 52Grainne
  53. 53Clare
  54. 54Veronica
  55. 55Brenda
  56. 56Elaine
  57. 57Louise
  58. 58Christine
  59. 59Suzanne
  60. 60Alice
  61. 61Jean
  62. 61Michele
  63. 63Claire
  64. 63Miriam
  65. 65Annette
  66. 66Ruth
  67. 67Jane
  68. 68Monica
  69. 69Helena
  70. 69Rosemary
  71. 71Katherine
  72. 71Nuala
  73. 73Audrey
  74. 74Noreen
  75. 75Deborah
  76. 76Rita
  77. 77Theresa
  78. 78Evelyn
  79. 79Adrienne
  80. 80Imelda
  81. 80Johanna
  82. 80Marian
  83. 80Regina
  84. 84Majella
  85. 85Emer
  86. 86Dolores
  87. 87Janet
  88. 87Jennifer
  89. 89Jacinta
  90. 89Niamh
  91. 89Una
  92. 92Edel
  93. 93Antoinette
  94. 93Maeve
  95. 93Noeleen
  96. 96Michelle
  97. 96Olive
  98. 98Therese
  99. 99Irene
  100. 100Philomena

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1965

  1. 1John
  2. 2Patrick
  3. 3Michael
  4. 4James
  5. 5Thomas
  6. 6Paul
  7. 7David
  8. 8William
  9. 9Martin
  10. 10Gerard
  11. 11Joseph
  12. 12Anthony
  13. 13Brian
  14. 14Peter
  15. 15Kevin
  16. 16Brendan
  17. 17Edward
  18. 18Declan
  19. 19Francis
  20. 20Stephen
  21. 21Noel
  22. 22Richard
  23. 23Robert
  24. 24Denis
  25. 25Daniel
  26. 26Mark
  27. 27Alan
  28. 28Christopher
  29. 29Timothy
  30. 30Derek
  31. 31Kieran
  32. 32Andrew
  33. 33Aidan
  34. 34Bernard
  35. 35Dermot
  36. 36Raymond
  37. 37Philip
  38. 38Donal
  39. 39Niall
  40. 40Kenneth
  41. 41Sean
  42. 42Jeremiah
  43. 43Cornelius
  44. 44Vincent
  45. 45Desmond
  46. 46Charles
  47. 47Eugene
  48. 48Colm
  49. 49Matthew
  50. 50Maurice
  51. 51Ciaran
  52. 52Laurence
  53. 53Hugh
  54. 54Ian
  55. 55Terence
  56. 56Conor
  57. 56George
  58. 58Seamus
  59. 59Liam
  60. 60Eamonn
  61. 61Damian
  62. 62Adrian
  63. 63Ronan
  64. 64Gerald
  65. 65Eamon
  66. 65Nicholas
  67. 65Shane
  68. 68Henry
  69. 69Oliver
  70. 70Enda
  71. 70Fergus
  72. 72Owen
  73. 73Damien
  74. 73Garrett
  75. 75Finbarr
  76. 75Simon
  77. 77Barry
  78. 77Edmond
  79. 77Eoin
  80. 80Gregory
  81. 81Gabriel
  82. 82Padraig
  83. 83Gary
  84. 83Keith
  85. 85Fintan
  86. 86Colin
  87. 87Fergal
  88. 88Karl
  89. 88Neil
  90. 90Rory
  91. 91Arthur
  92. 92Cormac
  93. 92Cyril
  94. 94Diarmuid
  95. 95Bartholomew
  96. 96Dominic
  97. 96Donald
  98. 98Eric
  99. 99Leo
  100. 99Nigel