Irán

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Irán is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 14K(measured from records)
  • PAPanama≈1 in 37K
  • VEVenezuela1 in 47K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

15,450 people, 2022

Sources
143 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Irao in BR Brazil, PH Philippines and Iran in CO Colombia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Irán 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.

Where Irán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil15,4501 in 14K16KIrao129
US United States2,3921 in 139K1.5KIrán143
VE Venezuela6161 in 47K616—16
PH Philippines≈240 est.≈1 in 455K—Irao13
CO Colombia≈190 est.≈1 in 263K—Iran23
PA Panama≈100 est.≈1 in 37K—Irán11
CR Costa Rica471 in 108K47Irán8
UY Uruguay421 in 81K42—5

15,450 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling iran. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Irán is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Iran, Irån, Îrân, Írán

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Iran, Írán, Īrān

  • Hindi given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Iran, ইরান, Airun, Irana, আইরুন

  • Malay name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Iran

  • Russian given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Azerbaijan, Brazil

    Languages: Russian, English, Spanish

    Also written Ирана, Irana, Iraña, Ірана, Иране

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Irán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East; official name: Iráni Iszlám Köztársaság)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Irán mean, and where does it come from?
Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Irán?
In the etymology graph, Iranio is a form of the same name in other languages.
Is Irán a male or female name?
Irán is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Irán have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Irán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irao.
Where is Irán most common?
Irán is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Irán?
In Brazil, the national register counted 15,450 people named Irán in 2022, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

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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, “Irán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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