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Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1981)

The rankings exactly as CSO Ireland published them for 1981. 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, 1981

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in Republic of Ireland, 1981

  1. 1John
  2. 2David
  3. 3Michael
  4. 4Patrick
  5. 5Paul
  6. 6James
  7. 7Brian
  8. 8Stephen
  9. 9Thomas
  10. 10Mark
  11. 11Alan
  12. 12Robert
  13. 13Kevin
  14. 14Shane
  15. 15Martin
  16. 16William
  17. 17Anthony
  18. 18Jonathan
  19. 19Peter
  20. 20Sean
  21. 21Daniel
  22. 22Joseph
  23. 23Keith
  24. 24Niall
  25. 25Gerard
  26. 26Andrew
  27. 27Barry
  28. 28Richard
  29. 29Brendan
  30. 29Declan
  31. 31Derek
  32. 32Ronan
  33. 33Gary
  34. 34Conor
  35. 35Eoin
  36. 36Darren
  37. 37Damien
  38. 38Philip
  39. 39Ciaran
  40. 40Christopher
  41. 41Colm
  42. 42Edward
  43. 42Kieran
  44. 44Kenneth
  45. 45Jason
  46. 46Aidan
  47. 47Ian
  48. 48Noel
  49. 49Gavin
  50. 50Francis
  51. 51Liam
  52. 52Padraig
  53. 53Colin
  54. 53Timothy
  55. 55Gareth
  56. 56Denis
  57. 57Raymond
  58. 58Trevor
  59. 59Dermot
  60. 60Donal
  61. 61Graham
  62. 62Adrian
  63. 63Vincent
  64. 64Neil
  65. 64Simon
  66. 66Seamus
  67. 67Ross
  68. 68Damian
  69. 68Wayne
  70. 70Karl
  71. 71Eamonn
  72. 72Rory
  73. 73Enda
  74. 74Cathal
  75. 75Matthew
  76. 76Bernard
  77. 77Darragh
  78. 78Owen
  79. 79Steven
  80. 80Nicholas
  81. 81Maurice
  82. 82Cormac
  83. 83Fergal
  84. 83Hugh
  85. 85Garry
  86. 86Eugene
  87. 87Emmet
  88. 88Adam
  89. 89Cian
  90. 90Bryan
  91. 91Desmond
  92. 92Charles
  93. 92Justin
  94. 94Eric
  95. 95Eoghan
  96. 95Jeremiah
  97. 95Micheal
  98. 98Aaron
  99. 99Diarmuid
  100. 99Oliver
Most popular baby names in Republic of Ireland (1981) · Namewise