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Baby name
Iris
Girl
Origin of the name
Iris comes from the ancient Greek Iris. In Greek myth, Iris is the messenger of the gods, the personification of the rainbow; the name was also given to the flower.
Rising name
101,550births since 1880
2020sgeneration
No. 61rank at its peak, in 2025
Where babies named Iris are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Iris is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Iris is most common in Hawaii (2.5 times), North Carolina (1.6) and Virginia (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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