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Girl's name · #61 in the US (2025) · Trending
Iris is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it reached #61 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 3,700 girls given the name last year. Roughly 102,000 have carried it all-time. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#11 in France (2025) · #19 in Sweden (2025) · #42 in Croatia (2025) · #44 in Finland (Swedish-sp.) (2025) · #49 in Belgium (2025) · #56 in Ecuador (2025) · #57 in England & Wales (2025) · #67 in Spain (2024) · #78 in Bosnia (FBiH) (2025) · #79 in New Zealand (2025) · #82 in Slovenia (2025) · #100 in Switzerland (2025) and 8 more.
Among 1,347 notable people named Iris:
Scientists & scholars appear 1.28× more often than among typical names — e.g. Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999).
Similar names: Melody · Irene · Elena · Margot · Madeline · Maya
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