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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1968)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1968. 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, 1968

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1968

  1. 1John
  2. 2Patrick
  3. 3Michael
  4. 4James
  5. 5David
  6. 6Thomas
  7. 7Paul
  8. 8William
  9. 9Martin
  10. 10Brian
  11. 11Gerard
  12. 12Mark
  13. 13Joseph
  14. 14Anthony
  15. 15Peter
  16. 16Robert
  17. 17Kevin
  18. 18Alan
  19. 19Brendan
  20. 20Stephen
  21. 21Declan
  22. 22Edward
  23. 23Noel
  24. 24Francis
  25. 25Daniel
  26. 26Derek
  27. 27Denis
  28. 28Richard
  29. 29Christopher
  30. 30Kenneth
  31. 31Timothy
  32. 32Andrew
  33. 33Philip
  34. 33Raymond
  35. 35Niall
  36. 36Aidan
  37. 37Sean
  38. 38Kieran
  39. 39Dermot
  40. 40Colm
  41. 41Bernard
  42. 42Donal
  43. 43Conor
  44. 44Ian
  45. 45Ronan
  46. 46Damien
  47. 47Eugene
  48. 47Laurence
  49. 49Vincent
  50. 50Cornelius
  51. 51Liam
  52. 52Desmond
  53. 53Shane
  54. 54Maurice
  55. 55Ciaran
  56. 56Gary
  57. 56Jeremiah
  58. 58Matthew
  59. 59Adrian
  60. 60Seamus
  61. 61Barry
  62. 61Colin
  63. 61George
  64. 64Terence
  65. 65Damian
  66. 66Enda
  67. 67Nicholas
  68. 68Eamonn
  69. 69Charles
  70. 70Fergal
  71. 71Hugh
  72. 72Eamon
  73. 72Fergus
  74. 72Keith
  75. 75Eoin
  76. 75Gerald
  77. 77Owen
  78. 78Padraig
  79. 79Garrett
  80. 79Karl
  81. 79Rory
  82. 82Oliver
  83. 83Finbarr
  84. 83Gregory
  85. 85Nigel
  86. 86Cathal
  87. 87Cormac
  88. 87Simon
  89. 89Henry
  90. 90Fintan
  91. 91Diarmuid
  92. 92Aiden
  93. 92Eric
  94. 92Justin
  95. 92Trevor
  96. 96Edmond
  97. 96Ronald
  98. 98Garry
  99. 98Jonathan
  100. 100Donald
Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1968) · Namewise