Ira
given name · Latin script
Meaning: His role illustrates the administrative complexity of the United Monarchy and suggests that the title 'priest' may have had a broader administrative application or that non-Levites occasionally held h
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aɪɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ira is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 13K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K
- DEGermany≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ira itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
25,849 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aira in PH Philippines, FI Finland, LV Latvia and Իրա in AM Armenia.
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)
His role illustrates the administrative complexity of the United Monarchy and suggests that the title 'priest' may have had a broader administrative application or that non-Levites occasionally held high religious-political office under David.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #814 | 25,849 | 1 in 13K | 23K | Ira | 482 |
| PH Philippines | #641 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Aira | 99 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Ira | 69 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ira | 148 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Ira | 127 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,475as Aira | 1 in 1.6K | 8.4K | Aira | 39 |
| MD Moldova | — | 879 | 1 in 3.8K | 879 | — | 13 |
| HR Croatia | — | 514 | 1 in 8.2K | 552 | — | 2 |
| AM Armenia | #550 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Իրա | 16 |
| LV Latvia | — | 447 | 1 in 4.2K | 447 | Aira | 11 |
25,849 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); 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)
Ira 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.
A biblical name meaning 'watchful' or 'city watch', historically associated with one of King David's mighty warriors.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
perhaps of Basque origin, a topographic name for someone living in a bracken-covered region, from Basque ira ‘bracken’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Initialism of Irish Republican Army.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Ira är bl.a. en kortform till ryskans → Irina. Det är även ett bibliskt mansnamn, använt i bl.a. USA. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 5 april.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Watchful, City, or Young Donkey
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)
- Ira H. Morganb. 1889USAmerican cinematographer (1889–1959)
- Jeff Chandlerb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and singer (1918–1961)
- Ira Levinb. 1929USAmerican novelist, playwright (1929–2007)
- Joe Dassinb. 1938USnot in their usual nameFrench-American musician (1938–1980)
- Charles Foxb. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer for film and television (born 1940)
- Art Garfunkelb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1941)
- Ira David Wood IIIb. 1947USAmerican actor
- Ira Newbornb. 1949USAmerican musician, actor, orchestrator and composer
- Brad Fiedelb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer of scores for film in television
- Ruben Loftus-Cheekb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1996)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 88 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 23K | #1,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #1,375 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.6K | #622 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.5K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 879 | #364 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 552 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 514 | #750 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 447 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 444 | #639 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 301 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 222 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #5,466 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Ira a male or female name?
- Ira 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.
- What does the name Ira mean, and where does it come from?
- His role illustrates the administrative complexity of the United Monarchy and suggests that the title 'priest' may have had a broader administrative application or that non-Levites occasionally held h… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Ira?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ira have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Ira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ira.
- Where is Ira most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ira is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 3.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Ira?
- In the etymology graph, Arisha, 'Ira and Irinushka are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Irina and Arina.
- How common is the name Ira?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,849 people named Ira in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Ira compared with other names?
- In the United States, Ira is the 814th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iraThe 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, “Ira” — the 814th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.