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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1978)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1978. 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, 1978

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1978

  1. 1John
  2. 2David
  3. 3Paul
  4. 4Michael
  5. 5Patrick
  6. 6James
  7. 7Mark
  8. 8Brian
  9. 9Thomas
  10. 10Stephen
  11. 11Alan
  12. 12Robert
  13. 13Martin
  14. 14Kevin
  15. 15Anthony
  16. 16William
  17. 17Gerard
  18. 18Shane
  19. 19Peter
  20. 20Barry
  21. 21Brendan
  22. 22Keith
  23. 23Joseph
  24. 24Andrew
  25. 25Niall
  26. 26Declan
  27. 27Richard
  28. 28Derek
  29. 29Daniel
  30. 30Philip
  31. 31Darren
  32. 32Edward
  33. 33Jonathan
  34. 34Sean
  35. 35Colm
  36. 36Ian
  37. 36Jason
  38. 38Kenneth
  39. 39Ronan
  40. 40Gavin
  41. 41Kieran
  42. 41Noel
  43. 43Adrian
  44. 44Conor
  45. 45Colin
  46. 46Ciaran
  47. 47Aidan
  48. 48Francis
  49. 49Damien
  50. 50Eoin
  51. 51Raymond
  52. 52Christopher
  53. 53Trevor
  54. 54Graham
  55. 55Neil
  56. 56Liam
  57. 57Denis
  58. 58Dermot
  59. 59Gary
  60. 60Timothy
  61. 61Donal
  62. 62Seamus
  63. 63Padraig
  64. 64Damian
  65. 65Vincent
  66. 66Karl
  67. 66Simon
  68. 68Owen
  69. 69Rory
  70. 70Enda
  71. 71Cathal
  72. 72Matthew
  73. 73Wayne
  74. 74Gareth
  75. 75Fergal
  76. 76Eamonn
  77. 77Bernard
  78. 78Maurice
  79. 79Desmond
  80. 79Stuart
  81. 81Oliver
  82. 82Cormac
  83. 83Ross
  84. 84Nigel
  85. 85Darragh
  86. 85Laurence
  87. 87Garrett
  88. 87Gregory
  89. 87Nicholas
  90. 87Terence
  91. 91Charles
  92. 91Hugh
  93. 93Garry
  94. 94Cornelius
  95. 94Jeremiah
  96. 94Wesley
  97. 97Eric
  98. 98Emmet
  99. 99Bryan
  100. 100George
Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1978) · Namewise