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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1973)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1973. 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, 1973

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1973

  1. 1John
  2. 2Michael
  3. 3Patrick
  4. 4David
  5. 5Paul
  6. 6James
  7. 7Thomas
  8. 8Mark
  9. 9Brian
  10. 10Alan
  11. 10Martin
  12. 12Stephen
  13. 13William
  14. 14Declan
  15. 15Anthony
  16. 16Gerard
  17. 17Kevin
  18. 18Peter
  19. 19Robert
  20. 20Joseph
  21. 21Jason
  22. 22Brendan
  23. 23Noel
  24. 24Keith
  25. 25Shane
  26. 26Richard
  27. 27Derek
  28. 28Niall
  29. 29Edward
  30. 29Sean
  31. 31Kenneth
  32. 32Darren
  33. 33Daniel
  34. 34Kieran
  35. 35Francis
  36. 36Raymond
  37. 37Barry
  38. 38Andrew
  39. 39Christopher
  40. 40Philip
  41. 41Aidan
  42. 42Denis
  43. 43Adrian
  44. 44Colm
  45. 45Ciaran
  46. 45Ian
  47. 47Conor
  48. 48Dermot
  49. 49Colin
  50. 49Damien
  51. 49Ronan
  52. 52Timothy
  53. 53Donal
  54. 54Gavin
  55. 54Trevor
  56. 56Liam
  57. 57Damian
  58. 58Jonathan
  59. 59Bernard
  60. 60Fergal
  61. 60Gary
  62. 60Seamus
  63. 63Eoin
  64. 63Graham
  65. 65Vincent
  66. 66Karl
  67. 67Enda
  68. 68Maurice
  69. 69Cornelius
  70. 70Cathal
  71. 71Garrett
  72. 72Owen
  73. 73Simon
  74. 74Eugene
  75. 75Laurence
  76. 76Terence
  77. 77Fergus
  78. 77Matthew
  79. 79Neil
  80. 80Eamonn
  81. 81Desmond
  82. 81Hugh
  83. 83Cormac
  84. 84Garry
  85. 85Rory
  86. 86Padraig
  87. 87George
  88. 88Justin
  89. 88Nicholas
  90. 90Charles
  91. 90Eric
  92. 90Jeremiah
  93. 93Nigel
  94. 94Gareth
  95. 94Gordon
  96. 94Gregory
  97. 97Wayne
  98. 98Finbarr
  99. 99Daragh
  100. 99Eamon
Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1973) · Namewise