Ira Forename
4,914th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 212,853 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Indonesia
Highest density in:
Niue
Ira Forename Definition:
A male name. Hebrew ‘watcher’; the name of a priest of David. It is used extensively in the USA.
Ira Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 99% | 90,080 | 1:2,864 | 317 |
| United States | 93% | 53,909 | 1:6,725 | 853 |
| India | 50% | 37,483 | 1:32,411 | 4,524 |
| Germany | 76% | 3,108 | 1:31,106 | 1,144 |
| Philippines | 86% | 3,093 | 1:34,274 | 2,896 |
| Georgia | 96% | 2,499 | 1:1,496 | 280 |
| Poland | 89% | 2,073 | 1:18,344 | 685 |
| Jamaica | - | 2,005 | 1:1,438 | 348 |
| Canada | 99% | 1,537 | 1:21,557 | 1,904 |
| Malaysia | 94% | 1,428 | 1:21,323 | 2,131 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,201 | 1:178,381 | 8,276 |
| Bangladesh | 75% | 1,191 | 1:133,889 | 8,095 |
| Finland | 100% | 870 | 1:6,303 | 650 |
| Armenia | 93% | 807 | 1:3,617 | 508 |
| Latvia | 100% | 647 | 1:3,115 | 394 |
| England | 85% | 618 | 1:89,972 | 3,516 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 572 | 1:36,362 | 4,240 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 525 | 1:58,691 | 6,867 |
| Nepal | 71% | 417 | 1:68,315 | 4,379 |
| Ivory Coast | 55% | 379 | 1:60,886 | 4,264 |
| Moldova | 100% | 368 | 1:9,677 | 465 |
| Netherlands | 83% | 367 | 1:46,055 | 3,248 |
| Israel | 88% | 364 | 1:23,085 | 2,066 |
| Azerbaijan | 61% | 358 | 1:26,936 | 2,225 |
| Albania | 100% | 357 | 1:8,534 | 1,417 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 322 | 1:18,551 | 2,354 |
| Papua New Guinea | 66% | 280 | 1:29,115 | 2,894 |
| Croatia | 100% | 272 | 1:15,504 | 972 |
| Estonia | 100% | 254 | 1:5,179 | 766 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 253 | 1:27,630 | 1,827 |
| Australia | - | 231 | 1:59,124 | 2,626 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 202 | 1:1,205 | 267 |
| Egypt | 67% | 195 | 1:471,287 | 12,924 |
| DR Congo | 70% | 171 | 1:431,740 | 15,753 |
| South Africa | 72% | 168 | 1:324,599 | 17,894 |
| Nigeria | 77% | 165 | 1:1,076,148 | 26,255 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 155 | 1:198,622 | 4,583 |
| Belgium | 85% | 144 | 1:79,792 | 3,093 |
| Sweden | 96% | 137 | 1:71,956 | 3,409 |
| Morocco | - | 136 | 1:252,564 | 6,008 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 124 | 1:84,123 | 4,669 |
| Greece | - | 122 | 1:89,627 | 2,534 |
| New Zealand | - | 122 | 1:37,181 | 2,281 |
| Venezuela | 97% | 120 | 1:251,682 | 8,498 |
| Bahamas | - | 117 | 1:3,413 | 616 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 108 | 1:1,016 | 207 |
| Italy | 91% | 105 | 1:581,544 | 5,939 |
| Mexico | 91% | 100 | 1:1,241,444 | 9,135 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 99 | 1:29,817 | 944 |
| Thailand | 83% | 99 | 1:707,735 | 29,750 |
| Russia | - | 96 | 1:1,502,434 | 11,182 |
| Japan | - | 90 | 1:1,422,067 | 17,281 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 90 | 1:15,127 | 1,982 |
| France | 100% | 88 | 1:755,345 | 6,730 |
| Congo | 56% | 82 | 1:61,088 | 4,382 |
| Afghanistan | 85% | 77 | 1:423,682 | 7,638 |
| Kuwait | - | 76 | 1:49,806 | 4,237 |
| Burkina Faso | 59% | 69 | 1:266,369 | 10,961 |
| Spain | 100% | 65 | 1:715,846 | 7,497 |
| Barbados | - | 64 | 1:4,528 | 724 |
| Wales | 93% | 62 | 1:49,908 | 1,736 |
| Mongolia | 86% | 61 | 1:48,112 | 4,064 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 58 | 1:1,714 | 364 |
| China | - | 56 | 1:24,393,853 | 60,649 |
| Romania | 100% | 56 | 1:358,071 | 10,587 |
| Singapore | 100% | 56 | 1:112,269 | 7,573 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 55 | 1:44,705 | 1,952 |
| Panama | 100% | 54 | 1:72,344 | 4,098 |
| Norway | 100% | 53 | 1:96,836 | 3,172 |
| Cameroon | 71% | 51 | 1:423,735 | 14,385 |
| Switzerland | 53% | 46 | 1:178,554 | 4,373 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 43 | 1:1,276 | 289 |
| Austria | 100% | 40 | 1:212,855 | 3,107 |
| Chile | 88% | 37 | 1:475,870 | 5,903 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| Argentina | 100% | 30 | 1:1,425,775 | 6,302 |
| Saint Lucia | 56% | 30 | 1:5,927 | 952 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 30 | 1:238,400 | 14,853 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 29 | 1:6,701,989 | 56,824 |
| Turkey | 100% | 29 | 1:2,682,818 | 16,510 |
| Belize | 100% | 28 | 1:12,654 | 1,726 |
| Guyana | 100% | 28 | 1:27,259 | 3,059 |
| Denmark | - | 27 | 1:209,241 | 4,567 |
| Peru | 100% | 26 | 1:1,222,748 | 15,121 |
| Brunei | 100% | 25 | 1:16,783 | 1,060 |
| South Korea | 100% | 25 | 1:221,777 | 8,097 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 24 | 1:739,452 | 9,106 |
| Niger | 53% | 24 | 1:799,333 | 13,611 |
| Scotland | 96% | 23 | 1:232,625 | 3,902 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 23 | 1:2,328 | 358 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 23 | 1:1,509 | 345 |
| Honduras | 100% | 21 | 1:419,879 | 6,925 |
| Qatar | 87% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 20 | 1:1,188,484 | 41,438 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 19 | 1:45,846 | 2,096 |
| Benin | 100% | 17 | 1:622,108 | 18,975 |
| Hong Kong | - | 16 | 1:484,545 | 4,322 |
| Serbia | 100% | 15 | 1:476,381 | 4,855 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 14 | 1:2,232 | 502 |
| Czechia | 81% | 13 | 1:819,705 | 3,136 |
| Kosovo | - | 13 | 1:143,188 | 6,648 |
| Niue | - | 13 | 1:123 | 22 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 13 | 1:8,583 | 1,271 |
| Kenya | - | 12 | 1:3,858,926 | 23,691 |
| Grenada | 71% | 11 | 1:9,830 | 1,266 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 11 | 1:547,121 | 9,117 |
| Zambia | - | 10 | 1:1,585,479 | 18,518 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Haiti | 100% | 8 | 1:1,340,869 | 18,166 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 8 | 1:703,446 | 7,424 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 7 | 1:1,894 | 342 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 7 | 1:503,494 | 4,832 |
| Colombia | 100% | 7 | 1:6,825,561 | 33,843 |
| Jordan | 94% | 7 | 1:1,260,968 | 6,027 |
| Senegal | 100% | 7 | 1:2,083,051 | 13,702 |
| Uganda | 100% | 7 | 1:5,850,989 | 49,331 |
| Bermuda | - | 6 | 1:10,804 | 1,174 |
| Ecuador | - | 6 | 1:2,954,486 | 13,743 |
| Uruguay | - | 6 | 1:571,273 | 6,582 |
| Liberia | 100% | 5 | 1:882,412 | 21,482 |
| Oman | - | 5 | 1:821,733 | 6,168 |
| Chad | 100% | 4 | 1:3,399,600 | 8,891 |
| Cuba | - | 4 | 1:2,876,638 | 6,272 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Ghana | 100% | 4 | 1:6,746,554 | 8,075 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 4 | 1:12,808 | 1,787 |
| Vietnam | - | 4 | 1:23,155,778 | 5,302 |
| Ireland | 82% | 3 | 1:1,547,840 | 7,573 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 3 | 1:20,433 | 1,694 |
| Costa Rica | 67% | 3 | 1:1,589,316 | 14,648 |
| Iran | - | 3 | 1:26,165,623 | 45,792 |
| Namibia | - | 3 | 1:801,393 | 11,859 |
| Cambodia | - | 2 | 1:8,136,665 | 51,498 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,045,378 | 12,250 |
| Maldives | - | 2 | 1:216,952 | 3,781 |
| Mauritania | 100% | 2 | 1:2,047,620 | 19,390 |
| Micronesia | - | 2 | 1:53,250 | 1,276 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 2 | 1:3,618,402 | 11,946 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 2 | 1:26,394,160 | 73,301 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 2 | 1:7,711,908 | 84,647 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| Guatemala | - | 1 | 1:16,108,429 | 13,998 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Luxembourg | - | 1 | 1:564,049 | 5,042 |
| Monaco | 100% | 1 | 1:38,466 | 2,379 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 1 | 1:54,668 | 1,803 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Tunisia | - | 1 | 1:676,902 | 12,933 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Irá (17), Irã (8) & Íra (1) are calculated separately.
Ira (19,470) may also be a surname.
Ira Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Hebrew ‘watcher’; the name of a priest of David. It is used extensively in the USA.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
M. Mostly American. Perhaps from Greek ίράω, ‘I love’ (irao) and thus related to Eros and to the Iras who, in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (cf. Charmian), was an attendant of the latter’s.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A male name. The Scripture name, in Hebrew עירא, Ira, signifying watchful.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
I'-rah, city, watch, spoil, heap of vision. 1. One of David s worthies. 2 Sam. xx. 26. 2. The son of Ikkesh. 1 Chron. xi. 28.
— The Proper Names of The Bible (1855) by John Farrar
Meaning: wakeful: a city.
— A Dictionary of the Proper Names of the Old and New Testament (1909) by James Beaumont Jackson
A Hebrew name, meaning: Descendant.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Ira Forename Popularity
Ira Demographics
Ira Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 5,134 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Ira Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Ira in the Russian language | ||
| Ира | ira | - |
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