Top 100 boys' names in Ireland for 2013

According to the annual report from the Central Statistics Office, Jack and Emily were the most popular babies’ name registered in Ireland during 2013.

The top five boys’ names (Jack, James, Daniel, Conor and Sean) have been the top five since 2007, with four of those five (Jack, Sean, Conor and James) in the top five since 1998.

Kai and Kayden were two first-time entries to the top 100 for boys. As in previous years, research shows that girls are given a wider variety of names than boys with 4,643 girls’ names registered compared to 3,628 boys’ names. Despite the greater number of male births, a smaller range of names were used for boys than for girls.

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Boys' name	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008
Jack	1	1	1	1	1	1
James	2	2	2	4	5	5
Daniel	3	3	4	3	3	4
Conor	4	5	5	5	4	3
Sean	5	4	3	2	2	2
Adam	6	6	7	7	7	7
Ryan	7	7	6	6	6	6
Michael	8	10	9	12	10	13
Harry	9	7	8	20	28	31
Noah	10	19	23	26	41	46
Thomas	11	17	18	22	18	19
Alex	12	18	10	8	8	10
Luke	13	11	12	9	9	9
Oisin	14	14	15	17	17	16
Charlie	15	12	20	19	27	29
Patrick	16	21	21	18	19	18
Cian	17	15	13	14	12	11
Liam	18	13	17	15	15	17
Darragh	18	20	19	16	14	15
Dylan	20	9	10	10	11	8
Jamie	21	16	14	11	13	14
Matthew	22	24	24	23	23	20
Cillian	23	23	22	21	21	23
Aaron	24	22	16	13	16	12
Fionn	25	27	30	35	34	35
Jake	26	31	34	30	35	30
John	27	25	26	24	21	22
David	28	27	24	25	25	21
Ben	29	34	28	28	26	24
Finn	30	38	36	46	48	49
Nathan	31	26	29	30	32	34
Kyle	32	32	36	37	40	38
Samuel	33	40	39	38	37	39
Evan	34	29	27	27	24	25
Max	35	34	46	48	56	56
Ethan	36	30	31	34	45	53
Rian	37	33	42	54	60	62
Joseph	38	44	41	38	36	32
Alexander	39	54	49	51	50	45
Mason	40	57	70	128	240	252
Oliver	41	59	54	52	62	83
Joshua	42	41	33	36	30	27
William	43	51	47	47	55	46
Eoin	44	36	32	29	20	26
Jayden	45	43	50	45	49	54
Oscar	46	61	62	61	66	65
Callum	47	39	35	32	29	37
Aidan	48	50	40	48	46	60
Tom	49	58	66	62	63	76
Robert	50	48	53	43	44	49
Sam	51	46	45	41	43	57
Tadhg	51	37	38	40	42	41
Jacob	53	64	64	75	111	110
Cathal	54	56	44	42	47	36
Shane	55	47	43	33	30	28
Leon	56	54	52	57	52	44
Mark	57	48	50	44	33	33
Senan	58	65	67	74	85	85
Bobby	59	63	63	62	85	109
Ronan	60	52	48	50	38	43
Andrew	60	60	60	58	58	41
Eoghan	62	53	55	55	39	48
Leo	63	84	79	94	112	96
Lucas	64	71	80	78	79	105
Rory	65	42	56	56	52	49
Alfie	66	79	85	99	112	146
Tyler	67	45	65	78	130	146
Benjamin	68	68	74	65	68	63
Cormac	68	68	59	58	58	54
Scott	70	67	83	72	71	71
Christopher	71	75	69	69	61	61
Odhran	72	82	88	75	82	89
Kevin	73	70	58	67	51	59
Ciaran	74	62	57	53	54	40
Dara	75	86	73	72	76	81
Shay	76	103	106	75	97	119
Alan	76	72	75	68	64	73
Tommy	78	80	88	160	166	169
Logan	79	97	112	141	156	157
Anthony	79	99	83	86	80	80
Jakub	81	73	61	60	57	64
Rhys	82	66	68	65	74	67
Tomas	83	93	97	86	81	89
Donnacha	84	73	76	102	116	100
Kai	85	109	118	147	171	178
Stephen	86	95	77	88	77	58
Killian	87	76	72	62	73	65
Niall	88	93	86	91	69	83
Jason	89	86	71	75	72	72
Josh	90	78	77	69	65	75
Kayden	91	135	137	174	186	207
Martin	92	89	88	85	74	81
Ruairi	92	81	94	88	88	86
Brian	92	91	92	82	69	49
Isaac	95	85	101	111	121	126
Danny	96	92	114	114	146	141
Edward	96	95	95	100	104	93
Oran	98	83	80	78	91	86
Sebastian	98	109	92	92	133	137
Hugh	98	112	99	126	92	100