Irena
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Irena 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. Recorded meaning: Greek-origin name meaning “peace”; used for women.
- 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)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Greek-origin name meaning “peace”; used for women.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Irena 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)
Irena 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 Swedish, Irena är en polsk och tjeckisk form av → Irene. Namnformen användes en del även i Sverige på 1800-talet, kanske som en bildning till det grekiska namnet Irenes som fanns i den dåvarande almanackan 5 april.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, weibl. Vom., latinisierte Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Latinate form of IRENE , used as a female given name in several languages, including Dutch, Polish, and Czech.
as a word
In Finnish, fairy bluebird (bird of the genus Irena, the only genus in the family Irenidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Zilvālodžu dzimtas ģints
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)
- Louise Mountbattenb. 1889SEnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Sweden (1950-1965)
- Irene Dunneb. 1898USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (1898–1990)
- Princess Irene, Duchess of Aostab. 1904GRnot in their usual nameGreek princess, Queen consort of Croatia, Duchess of Aosta (1904–1974)
- Irena Sendlerb. 1910PLPolish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)
- Princess Irene of Greece and Denmarkb. 1942ESnot in their usual namePrincess of Greece and Denmark (1942–2026)
- Irena Szewińskab. 1946PLPolish sprinter and sports official (1946–2018)
- Irene Mecchib. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer for television, movies, newspapers, and Broadway (born 1949)
- Irene Carab. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actress (1959–2022)
- Elizabeth Banksb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and director
- Emily VanCampb. 1986CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress
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 89 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 196K | #35 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 196K | #35 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 82K | #59 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 42K | #5 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 41K | #68 |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | 35K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 12K | #4 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 12K | #13 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 330 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 326 | #719 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 92 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2000 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Irena mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek-origin name meaning “peace”; used for women. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Irena a male or female name?
- Irena 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 Irena?
- In the etymology graph, Irene, Irina and Iryna are forms of the same name in other languages; Ena and Irenka are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Irena have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 196 thousand people named Irena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irena.
- Where is Irena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Irena is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 130 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Irena?
- In Poland, the national register counted 196,353 people named Irena in 2026, about 1 in 195 residents.
- How common is Irena compared with other names?
- In Poland, Irena is the 56th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/irenaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Irena” — the 56th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.