Seán Óg

Seán Óg was the #262 boys' name in Ireland in 2025 (17 babies).

Seán Óg as a boy’s name

  • Ireland
Seán Óg as a boy’s name, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.511.52197019801990200020102020Ireland
Seán Óg as a boy’s name, IrelandBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1964–2025, for Ireland. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.511.52198020002020
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. In Ireland, the line follows the most-used spelling each year: Sean Og to 2017, Seán Óg from 2018. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearIreland
2025#262 (17)
2024#222 (20)
2023#203 (24)
2022#214 (24)
2021#257 (18)
2020#324 (13)
2019#370 (10)
2018#283 (16)
2017#336 (12)
2016#283 (16)
2015#329 (13)
2014#286 (16)
2013#352 (11)
2012#379 (10)
2011#407 (9)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in Ireland in 2023 at #203.
  • Rising over the last five years.
  • First recorded in Ireland in 2018.

How common is it?

about 1 in 1,400 baby boys in the published Ireland list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet about 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Seán Óg is likely to keep rising in Ireland in 2026: about 1 in 1,200 baby boys. Likely range 1 in 840 to 1 in 1,800.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
Seán ÓgIrelandBoys#26217
Sean OgIrelandBoys—too few
Sean-OgNorthern IrelandBoys—too few