Popularity of names starting with IRENE
Here's another name from which one can infer the person thus named is, well, of a certain age.
I had expected it to rank much higher in the 1940s and 1950s, since I knew one or two Irenes my parents' age, but it apparently enjoyed its popularity during the turn of the century, and it only went down from there.
If you check out Wikipedia's disambiguation page for Irene, which is Greek in origin, I doubt you'll recognize any of the Irenes except for (maybe) Irene Cara and one of the Hurricane Irenes that kicked ass in 1999 and 2005.
If you happen to know a man named Irene, chances are his parents either really wanted a girl...
Popularity of names starting with IRENE
...or he's about 110 years old.
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