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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1969)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1969. 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, 1969

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1969

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