Eimear

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Eimear is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ireland. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • IEIreland1 in 1.3K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 68K
  • AUAustralia1 in 117K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈22 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
117 ●

5.1K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 734K ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Eimear is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IE Ireland#1767,1502K rec.—57Eimear117
GB United Kingdom—3,0501.2K rec.—23Eimear98
AU Australia—993865 rec.—1Eimear66
US United States—952804 rec.—5Eimear109
CA Canada—7464 rec.——Eimear27
DE Germany—5956 rec.——Eimear22
BR Brazil—3429 rec.——Eimear6
ES Spain—3231 rec.——Eimear10
NL Netherlands—2514 rec.—listedEimear10
AE United Arab Emirates—229 rec.——Eimear11
BE Belgium—1613 rec.——Eimear11
NZ New Zealand—143 rec.——Eimear8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English12K88%
  • Spanish2122%
  • French1911%
  • German1281%
  • Portuguese971%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English11,78188%
Spanish2122%
French1911%
German1281%
Portuguese971%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Eimear is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name225 records spelled Eimear4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Eiméar, Éimear

  • Danish given name212 records spelled Eimear5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Eiméar

  • a separate given name139 records spelled Eimear4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Eimèar, Eiméar, Éimear

  • Finnish given name54 records spelled Eimear3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Ireland

    Also written Eiméar

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02040608020002010202076 · 2007

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Eimear in NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present), United Kingdom, 1997–2025
Yearrecords
199775
199875
199953
200063
200166
200275
200355
200472
200575
200670
200776
200850
200956
201052
201143
201255
201339
201449
201538
201633
201738
201841
201936
202031
202130
202234
202326
202418
202523

GB NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) — 29 years between 1997–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Eimear Quinn, b. 1972Eimear McBride, b. 1976Eimear Ní Chonaola, b. 1977Eímear Noone, b. 1978Nikki Hayes, b. 1979Eimear McGeown, b. 1983Eimear Moran, b. 1984Eimear Richardson, b. 1986Eimear Considine, b. 1991Eimear Lambe, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Eimear
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2000168#33
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2005148#44
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)1999148#35
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2001146#40
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)1998140#29
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2006138#48
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2007137#51
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2004135#43
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2002133#43
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2008125#57
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2003125#46
IE IrelandCSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present)2009102#73

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 71 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Eimear?
We estimate roughly 22 people bear Eimear (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Eimear have the most bearers?
Eimear is most frequently recorded in Ireland, where it is most often spelled eimear.
How common is Eimear compared with other names?
In Ireland, Eimear is the 176th most common given name of 13,994 given names recorded there.
Is Eimear a male or female name?
Eimear is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Eimear” — the 176th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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