Ir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of industrial relations (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ˈir/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Ir is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 380Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 400Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ir
- Indonesian:/ˈir/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Initialism of industrial relations.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ir counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In kr, i(h) g in, I open a knot. ndenujin, v. (si ndeptsin) i) I tie fused only with ndebu.) 2) I cause a person to be immovably fixed to any spot, by means of witchcraft. mil'] iter dm, s. place for tying any thing. m/i'i, pron. who? which? e.g. die, nd&t who is it? nduma, jiron. some one, some body, any one: nduma bdgo
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In cdo, proposition, to assign a subject for composition
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In enm, alternative form of hire (“her”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kei, wood file, made from a piece of wood over which a piece of ray or shark skin is stretched
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ir mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of industrial relations. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ir?
- In Indonesian /ˈir/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Ir a male or female name?
- Ir is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Ir?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Ir in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ir. After it come Indonesia, Poland, Malaysia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ir is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ir?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 39 people named Ir in 2022, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.
- How common is Ir compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Ir is the 339th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/irThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ir” — the 339th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.