Mairead
6
Babies in 2024
-33%
10-year change
2000
Peak · 39
+50%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Mairead
Mairead peaked among UK girls' names in the early 2000s (39 babies in 2000) and has remained in active use — 6 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Mairead reached its peak in 2000, when 39 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #645 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 6 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 28 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 346 girls have been officially registered with the name Mairead in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 72 girls were registered with the name, starting from 9 in 2014 and ending at 6 in 2024.