Iris Forename
1,202nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 783,027 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Honduras
Iris Forename Definition:
A female name. Greek 'Ιρις ‘the rainbow’. The use of this as a christian name is modern Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884 does not mention it; a writer to Notes and Queries 1904 gives it as one of the flower-names whose use was growing common.
Read More About This ForenameIris Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 146,426 | 1:660 | 175 |
| United States | 100% | 92,581 | 1:3,916 | 618 |
| Brazil | 92% | 50,884 | 1:4,210 | 588 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 38,530 | 1:784 | 115 |
| England | 100% | 38,504 | 1:1,444 | 279 |
| Honduras | 100% | 36,993 | 1:238 | 27 |
| Mexico | 100% | 33,546 | 1:3,701 | 488 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 29,251 | 1:578 | 119 |
| Argentina | 100% | 23,312 | 1:1,835 | 273 |
| Chile | 100% | 20,381 | 1:864 | 184 |
| Peru | 100% | 19,887 | 1:1,599 | 316 |
| Guatemala | 99% | 16,673 | 1:966 | 206 |
| Colombia | 100% | 15,835 | 1:3,017 | 391 |
| Mozambique | - | 15,360 | 1:1,774 | 392 |
| Philippines | 94% | 12,612 | 1:8,405 | 1,194 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 12,478 | 1:836 | 127 |
| Spain | 100% | 12,392 | 1:3,755 | 410 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 12,349 | 1:287 | 59 |
| El Salvador | - | 12,289 | 1:516 | 89 |
| South Africa | 100% | 10,560 | 1:5,164 | 977 |
| Cuba | - | 10,447 | 1:1,101 | 245 |
| Panama | 100% | 8,274 | 1:472 | 59 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 7,511 | 1:1,094 | 232 |
| Canada | 100% | 7,136 | 1:4,643 | 730 |
| Jamaica | - | 6,457 | 1:447 | 88 |
| Austria | 100% | 5,699 | 1:1,494 | 242 |
| Angola | 100% | 5,533 | 1:4,874 | 763 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 5,518 | 1:621 | 136 |
| Sweden | 100% | 5,314 | 1:1,855 | 295 |
| Belgium | 100% | 5,016 | 1:2,291 | 484 |
| Italy | 100% | 4,608 | 1:13,251 | 723 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 4,457 | 1:1,070 | 226 |
| Nicaragua | 98% | 3,515 | 1:1,712 | 339 |
| Wales | 100% | 3,396 | 1:911 | 221 |
| China | - | 2,500 | 1:546,422 | 27,090 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 2,416 | 1:763 | 173 |
| Ecuador | - | 2,250 | 1:7,879 | 729 |
| France | 100% | 1,800 | 1:36,928 | 1,291 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,790 | 1:2,989 | 362 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,742 | 1:15,492 | 1,297 |
| Australia | - | 1,666 | 1:8,198 | 851 |
| Portugal | - | 1,642 | 1:6,340 | 464 |
| Finland | 100% | 1,456 | 1:3,766 | 508 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 1,420 | 1:7,466 | 901 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 1,378 | 1:1,784 | 348 |
| Denmark | - | 1,332 | 1:4,241 | 546 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1,260 | 1:6,153 | 504 |
| Egypt | 73% | 1,215 | 1:75,639 | 3,772 |
| Albania | 86% | 1,169 | 1:2,606 | 551 |
| Croatia | 100% | 1,141 | 1:3,696 | 481 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,109 | 1:63,179 | 6,282 |
| Paraguay | 96% | 1,085 | 1:6,670 | 819 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,075 | 1:4,220 | 633 |
| Norway | 100% | 1,070 | 1:4,797 | 593 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,049 | 1:29,373 | 3,696 |
| Gabon | 100% | 962 | 1:1,958 | 462 |
| Bangladesh | - | 916 | 1:174,084 | 9,484 |
| India | 91% | 801 | 1:1,516,702 | 86,664 |
| Ireland | 99% | 791 | 1:5,870 | 539 |
| Malawi | 94% | 761 | 1:22,487 | 1,964 |
| Zambia | - | 724 | 1:21,899 | 1,835 |
| Greece | 100% | 684 | 1:15,986 | 851 |
| Indonesia | - | 670 | 1:385,020 | 31,341 |
| Romania | 100% | 669 | 1:29,973 | 1,958 |
| Malaysia | 91% | 566 | 1:53,798 | 4,384 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 565 | 1:27,299 | 2,814 |
| Singapore | 100% | 513 | 1:12,255 | 2,544 |
| Bahamas | - | 479 | 1:834 | 213 |
| DR Congo | 67% | 472 | 1:156,414 | 7,340 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 463 | 1:337 | 75 |
| Russia | 91% | 461 | 1:312,871 | 4,004 |
| Belize | 100% | 437 | 1:811 | 141 |
| Guyana | 100% | 415 | 1:1,839 | 350 |
| Suriname | 100% | 329 | 1:1,680 | 382 |
| Nigeria | 88% | 319 | 1:556,628 | 16,916 |
| Morocco | - | 300 | 1:114,495 | 3,629 |
| Estonia | 100% | 294 | 1:4,474 | 708 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 218 | 1:99,131 | 5,201 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 218 | 1:32,807 | 3,154 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 210 | 1:6,483 | 1,070 |
| Poland | 100% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Kenya | - | 179 | 1:258,699 | 9,593 |
| Barbados | - | 161 | 1:1,800 | 407 |
| Turkey | 99% | 156 | 1:498,729 | 6,978 |
| Swaziland | - | 154 | 1:8,443 | 1,221 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 147 | 1:161,699 | 15,802 |
| French Polynesia | - | 141 | 1:1,971 | 444 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 141 | 1:778 | 136 |
| South Korea | 100% | 137 | 1:40,470 | 2,994 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 119 | 1:1,633,258 | 23,905 |
| Aruba | - | 113 | 1:918 | 181 |
| Benin | 100% | 101 | 1:104,711 | 6,375 |
| Congo | 63% | 98 | 1:51,114 | 3,842 |
| Czechia | 100% | 96 | 1:111,002 | 1,203 |
| Botswana | 100% | 95 | 1:22,994 | 2,710 |
| Jersey | - | 93 | 1:1,075 | 232 |
| Papua New Guinea | 66% | 93 | 1:87,659 | 8,148 |
| Qatar | 91% | 87 | 1:27,237 | 3,729 |
| Serbia | 100% | 83 | 1:86,093 | 2,585 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 79 | 1:1,258 | 267 |
| Kazakhstan | 78% | 79 | 1:224,644 | 4,755 |
| Iceland | - | 74 | 1:4,946 | 591 |
| Malta | - | 68 | 1:6,314 | 764 |
| Kuwait | - | 66 | 1:57,352 | 4,703 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 62 | 1:90,767 | 3,092 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 60 | 1:9,683 | 992 |
| Bahrain | - | 59 | 1:22,859 | 3,234 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 58 | 1:9,725 | 807 |
| Liberia | 96% | 57 | 1:77,405 | 3,595 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 70% | 56 | 1:106,666 | 6,884 |
| Hungary | 100% | 53 | 1:184,750 | 1,007 |
| Myanmar | - | 49 | 1:1,060,169 | 627 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 47 | 1:18,534 | 1,218 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 46 | 1:679 | 114 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 44 | 1:1,393 | 313 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 44 | 1:789 | 165 |
| Bermuda | - | 41 | 1:1,581 | 369 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 40 | 1:13,229 | 1,226 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 40 | 1:1,372 | 319 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 36 | 1:3,099 | 585 |
| Japan | - | 34 | 1:3,764,296 | 25,024 |
| Vietnam | - | 34 | 1:2,724,209 | 3,288 |
| Macau | - | 32 | 1:19,007 | 359 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 32 | 1:5,557 | 900 |
| Belarus | 94% | 30 | 1:316,079 | 2,349 |
| Bulgaria | 95% | 29 | 1:241,048 | 5,534 |
| Grenada | 100% | 29 | 1:3,728 | 659 |
| Guam | - | 28 | 1:5,737 | 966 |
| Uganda | 94% | 28 | 1:1,462,747 | 21,804 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 21 | 1:252,860 | 1,521 |
| Ivory Coast | 60% | 20 | 1:1,153,797 | 32,566 |
| Israel | 85% | 19 | 1:442,259 | 9,252 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 19 | 1:1,992 | 317 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 15 | 1:3,519,221 | 24,304 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 14 | 1:3,509 | 635 |
| Iraq | 100% | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 13 | 1:1,020 | 161 |
| Iran | - | 13 | 1:6,038,221 | 21,383 |
| Tunisia | - | 11 | 1:61,537 | 2,905 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 10 | 1:19,200 | 1,714 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| Dominica | - | 9 | 1:8,386 | 360 |
| Gambia | - | 9 | 1:214,066 | 587 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Moldova | - | 9 | 1:395,682 | 2,704 |
| Monaco | 100% | 9 | 1:4,274 | 738 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 9 | 1:648 | 154 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 8 | 1:4,077,940 | 25,891 |
| Andorra | - | 8 | 1:10,361 | 626 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 5 | 1:704,892 | 5,284 |
| Burkina Faso | 67% | 5 | 1:3,675,894 | 52,713 |
| Cambodia | 67% | 5 | 1:3,254,666 | 31,163 |
| Namibia | - | 5 | 1:480,836 | 6,391 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 4 | 1:284,422 | 684 |
| Ethiopia | - | 4 | 1:24,390,033 | 19,296 |
| Fiji | - | 4 | 1:223,094 | 2,508 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Kosovo | - | 4 | 1:465,360 | 11,976 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 4 | 1:509,999 | 25,489 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 4 | 1:522,689 | 9,487 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Algeria | - | 3 | 1:12,725,573 | 18,455 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 3 | 1:3,214,315 | 27,427 |
| Haiti | - | 3 | 1:3,575,651 | 30,510 |
| Jordan | 100% | 3 | 1:2,942,258 | 8,136 |
| San Marino | 100% | 3 | 1:10,973 | 542 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Mauritius | - | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Micronesia | - | 2 | 1:53,250 | 1,276 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Nepal | - | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Armenia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Comoros | - | 1 | 1:761,339 | 901 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| Georgia | 100% | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Latvia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Senegal | 100% | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Tajikistan | - | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
The alternate forms: Íris (1,603), Irís (7) & Iriş (3) are calculated separately.
Iris (4,306) may also be a surname.
Iris Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Greek 'Ιρις ‘the rainbow’. The use of this as a christian name is modern Charlotte Mary Yonge, History of ChristianNames, 2 vols. 1863. Revised ed. 1884 does not mention it; a writer to Notes and Queries 1904 gives it as one of the flower-names whose use was growing common.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
F. A transliteration of Greek ίρις, ‘a rainbow’. In Greek mythology, Iris is the personification of the rainbow, ‘the swift messenger of the gods’: in the Iliad, Iris is an unpersonified messenger of the gods.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
Greek (masculine) (rainbow) - Messenger of peace.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Greek name, meaning: In classic legend, the messenger of the gods.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
A Latin name, meaning: Goddess of the rainbow, promising a fair tomorrow. (Greek) Goddess of the rainbow: a rare mineral from the Ural composed of minute crystals.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Iris Forename Popularity
Iris Demographics
Iris Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 22 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Iris Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Iris in the Russian language | ||
| Ирис | iris | - |
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