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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1972)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1972. 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, 1972

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1972

  1. 1John
  2. 2Michael
  3. 3Patrick
  4. 4David
  5. 5James
  6. 6Paul
  7. 7Thomas
  8. 8Mark
  9. 9Brian
  10. 10William
  11. 11Alan
  12. 12Martin
  13. 13Stephen
  14. 14Anthony
  15. 15Declan
  16. 16Gerard
  17. 17Joseph
  18. 18Robert
  19. 19Kevin
  20. 20Peter
  21. 21Edward
  22. 22Derek
  23. 23Brendan
  24. 24Niall
  25. 25Jason
  26. 26Kenneth
  27. 27Noel
  28. 28Richard
  29. 29Francis
  30. 30Dermot
  31. 31Shane
  32. 32Darren
  33. 33Sean
  34. 34Raymond
  35. 35Denis
  36. 36Daniel
  37. 37Colm
  38. 38Andrew
  39. 39Keith
  40. 40Barry
  41. 41Kieran
  42. 42Philip
  43. 43Christopher
  44. 44Timothy
  45. 45Aidan
  46. 46Ronan
  47. 47Damien
  48. 48Ian
  49. 49Colin
  50. 50Adrian
  51. 51Ciaran
  52. 52Conor
  53. 53Fergal
  54. 54Donal
  55. 54Gary
  56. 56Gavin
  57. 57Liam
  58. 58Seamus
  59. 59Vincent
  60. 60Bernard
  61. 61Cornelius
  62. 62Desmond
  63. 63Trevor
  64. 64Damian
  65. 64Jonathan
  66. 66Karl
  67. 67Cathal
  68. 68Matthew
  69. 69Simon
  70. 70Jeremiah
  71. 70Maurice
  72. 72Enda
  73. 73Eoin
  74. 73Laurence
  75. 73Terence
  76. 76Graham
  77. 77Eugene
  78. 78Hugh
  79. 79Nicholas
  80. 80Rory
  81. 81George
  82. 81Owen
  83. 83Cormac
  84. 84Padraig
  85. 85Garrett
  86. 86Justin
  87. 87Eamonn
  88. 88Charles
  89. 89Eamon
  90. 89Fergus
  91. 91Nigel
  92. 92Gregory
  93. 93Neil
  94. 94Diarmuid
  95. 94Eric
  96. 96Oliver
  97. 97Finbarr
  98. 97Fintan
  99. 99Garry
  100. 99Ivan
Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1972) · Namewise