Eileen

EYE-leen

Scottish variation of Evelyn

"desired; or water, island"

Eileen Origin and Meaning

The name Eileen is a girl's name of Gaelic, Scottish origin meaning "desired; or water, island".

The Scottish Eileen was a midcentury darling that was on a long downward slide for decades. And then, in 2012, it took an unexpected pivot and has been inching upward in the US. The unrelated but similar-sounding Isla may have revived the taste for Eileen. Isla along with Lee and Lena might be nicknames for Eileen. Eileen is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Eibhlin or Aibhilin, which is technically a form of to Evelyn/Aveline, but is also sometimes considered part of the Helen family of names. Aileen is the Irish version, less popular now than Eileen.

Eileen Rank in US Top 1000

# 660 in the US

Eileen Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 520 on Nameberry

Eileen Popularity

• 660 US 2023
• 520 Nameberry 2024
• 640 Future 2028
• 122 Germany 2016

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Famous People Named Eileen

• Eileen Moore British actress
• Eileen Heckart (born Anna Eileen Herbert) American actress
• Eileen June Atkins English actress
• (Verla) Eileen (Regina) Brennan American actress
• Eileen Farrell American opera singer
• Eileen Marie Collins American astronaut
• Eilleen Regina Edwards birth name of singer/songwriter Shania Twain
• Eileen Fisher American clothing designer
• Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Irish poet
• Eileen Myles American poet
• Eileen Chang (born Zhang Ying) Chinese novelist
• Eileen Davidson American actress
• Eileen Bennett Whittingstall British tennis player
• Eileen Alannah Joyce Australian pianist
• (Eileen Evelyn) Greer Garson Anglo,American actress
• Eileen Ivers American fiddler
• Eileen "Eile Monty" Montgomery American voice actor and singer

Eileen in Pop Culture

• Eileen Galvin character in the video game Silent Hill 4
• Eileen character in comic strip "Fox Trot"
• Eileen Codlin character from "Extraordinary" by Adam Selzer
• Eileen Prince mother of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series
• Eileen the mole in animated series "Regular Show"
• Eileen Mildred Summers character in computer game "Kathy Rain"
• Eileen character in the "St Clare" book series by Enid Blyton
• Eileen Tanaka character in "Does My Head Look Big in This?" by Randa Abdel,Fattah
• "Come On Eileen " song by Dexy's Midnight Runners
• "Eileen " song by The Hush Sound (So Sudden)