Ireland is from the Old Norse Íra-land — "land of the Irish." The country itself is the third-largest island in Europe (after Great Britain and Iceland). Ireland as a country — home to 5.3 million people; capital Dublin; gained independence from the UK in 1922; modern Ireland's literary heritage (Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, Wilde) is among the most-celebrated in Western culture relative to its population size — four Nobel Prizes in Literature. Ireland Boys Productions — YouTube duo (male reference). Ireland in fiction — Cecelia Ahern's bestselling P.S. Ireland Phillips — British socialite. The Republic of Ireland's tourism ("Wild Atlantic Way") is among the highest per-capita in Europe.
Ireland does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ireland reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.