Piaras

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Piaras: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#210highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in Northern Ireland · 1997–2020

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Northern Ireland · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#227
1998	#240
2000	#244
2001	#243
2002	#243
2003	#210
2004	#235
2005	#265
2006	#257
2012	#346
2013	#398
2019	#418
2020	#392

VerifiedSource: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names.Confidence: high.

See all Northern Ireland names · Source: NISRA — Northern Ireland Baby Names

What the data shows

FallingNorthern Ireland · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 8 of the 40 years from 1966 to 2005.

In 2005: #265 among boys in Northern Ireland, #448 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1966–2020 · NISRA. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #256 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2020
Highest recorded position: #210 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 1997–2020).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2020
Most recently recorded at #392 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 2020.
Northern Ireland · Boys

Piaras appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Northern Ireland · Boys, with 13 ranked years and 54 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1966.

Piaras across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Piaras's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#256 (1966)	#256 (1966)	#448 (2005)	8 of 40	28 (1966–2005)	4 (1979)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#227 (1997)	#210 (2003)	#392 (2020)	13 of 24	54 (1997–2020)	6 (2003)

Piaras by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Piaras in Northern Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	2 of 10	5
2000sbusiest	32	7 of 10	5
2010s	10	3 of 10	3
2020s	3	1 of 10	3

Across Northern Ireland · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names Northern Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1966 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #210 in Northern Ireland in 2003.

Piaras's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#257	5	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#265	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#235	5	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#210	6	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#244	4	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#240	4	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#227	5	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#302	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#256	3	High	Verified

Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Piaras is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Piaras, between 1966 and 2020, in 18 of those 55 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1966–2005	8	#256 in 1966
Northern Ireland	1997–2020	13	#210 in 2003

Its high point came 37 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1966) than in Northern Ireland (2003).

No registrar recorded it for 12 years after 1980; it appears again in 1993.

Piaras was ranked #210 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Angus#210
Bernard#210
Blaine#210
Bryan#210
Adrian#229
Ashley#229
Brandon-Lee#229
Brooklyn#229

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1966 to 2020. Highest recorded position: #210 in Northern Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Piaras

Piaras at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Piaras across 2 official records

Piaras by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

Popularity data

Where Piaras is officially recorded

Names published alongside Piaras

Piaras at a glance

Piaras across 2 official records

Piaras by decade in Northern Ireland · Boys

Names published alongside Piaras