Irēna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Ancient Greek
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Irēna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 130(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 181
- PLPoland1 in 195
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 130 (inferred from the name graph)
196,353 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Irena in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, SI Slovenia and 2 more.
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)
a female given name from Ancient Greek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Irēna 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #56 | 196,353 | 1 in 195 | 196K | Irena | 150 |
| CZ Czechia | #90 | 82,108 | 1 in 130 | 82K | Irena | 115 |
| SI Slovenia | #59 | 11,604 | 1 in 181 | 12K | Irena | 53 |
| RS Serbia | #151 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | listed | Irena | 53 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 285 | 42K | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,455 | 1 in 345 | 5.5K | Irena | 16 |
196,353 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Registrų centras — top-50 given names; SURS — resident population given names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Irēna 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Irēna Strodeb. 1921LVLatvian ballet dancer
- Irēna Cērmaneb. 1938(1938) theater producer and director
- Irēna Žaunab. 1981LVLatvian hurdler
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 5.5K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 5.4K | #91 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #8,158 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 8 | #8,159 |
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 Irēna mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Ancient Greek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Irēna a male or female name?
- Irēna is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Irēna?
- In the etymology graph, Irene, Irina and Iryna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Irēna have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 196 thousand people named Irēna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irena.
- Where is Irēna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Irēna is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 130 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Irēna?
- In Poland, the national register counted 196,353 people named Irēna in 2026, about 1 in 195 residents.
- How common is Irēna compared with other names?
- In Poland, Irēna is the 56th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Irēna?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ir%C4%93naThe 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, “Irēna” — the 56th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.