Feminine dossier · first seen 1967

Mairead

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Mairead
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Cross-generational persistence

Peak era

2002

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Z

1967Peak 20022024

Peak year

2002

Decline from peak

67.8%

2024

All-time

1,369

Mairead has avoided the sharper boom-and-bust cycles of fashion naming. Its strength is not novelty but endurance: steady recognition across eras, families, and classrooms.

Your name peaked in 2002, when 59 girls were named Mairead.

In 2024, only 19 girls were given the name.

Down 67.8% from its peak.

All told, about 1,369 Americans have been named Mairead and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1967.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Z

StabilityModerate cultural durability

TrajectoryCross-generational persistence

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