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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1971)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1971. 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, 1971

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1971

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