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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1974)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1974. 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, 1974

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1974

  1. 1John
  2. 2Michael
  3. 3Patrick
  4. 4David
  5. 5Paul
  6. 6James
  7. 7Mark
  8. 8Thomas
  9. 9Brian
  10. 10Alan
  11. 11William
  12. 12Stephen
  13. 13Martin
  14. 14Anthony
  15. 15Kevin
  16. 16Joseph
  17. 17Robert
  18. 18Jason
  19. 19Keith
  20. 20Peter
  21. 21Declan
  22. 22Gerard
  23. 23Shane
  24. 24Niall
  25. 25Edward
  26. 26Kenneth
  27. 27Brendan
  28. 28Derek
  29. 29Richard
  30. 30Sean
  31. 31Darren
  32. 32Barry
  33. 32Raymond
  34. 34Noel
  35. 35Kieran
  36. 36Andrew
  37. 37Christopher
  38. 37Daniel
  39. 39Aidan
  40. 40Damien
  41. 41Francis
  42. 42Philip
  43. 43Ian
  44. 44Denis
  45. 45Colm
  46. 46Adrian
  47. 47Dermot
  48. 48Donal
  49. 49Ronan
  50. 50Conor
  51. 51Colin
  52. 51Jonathan
  53. 53Trevor
  54. 54Timothy
  55. 55Gary
  56. 56Liam
  57. 57Ciaran
  58. 58Fergal
  59. 59Damian
  60. 60Vincent
  61. 61Eoin
  62. 62Graham
  63. 63Gavin
  64. 63Seamus
  65. 65Bernard
  66. 66Padraig
  67. 67Karl
  68. 68Maurice
  69. 69Cathal
  70. 70Enda
  71. 71Matthew
  72. 72Eamonn
  73. 73Neil
  74. 74Nigel
  75. 75Garrett
  76. 76Jeremiah
  77. 76Owen
  78. 78Desmond
  79. 79Terence
  80. 80Hugh
  81. 80Justin
  82. 80Simon
  83. 83Laurence
  84. 84Gregory
  85. 85Cornelius
  86. 86George
  87. 86Nicholas
  88. 88Fergus
  89. 89Eugene
  90. 90Cormac
  91. 90Rory
  92. 92Oliver
  93. 92Wayne
  94. 94Charles
  95. 95Glenn
  96. 96Eric
  97. 97Gordon
  98. 98Gareth
  99. 99Eamon
  100. 99Finbarr
Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1974) · Namewise