Irit
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ) Irith: seit Mitte des 20.Jh.s entlehnter weibl (DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Irit is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Irit is also written אירית in Hebrew.
- PLPoland1 in 430K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 490Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 570Kfew records
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 Irit itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 named אירית, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Irit in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אירית in IL Israel, DE Germany, PL Poland.
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)) Irith: seit Mitte des 20.Jh.s entlehnter weibl. Vom. neubebräischer Her kunft (neuhebr. irit »Asphodele; ein Lilien gewächs«). jrka: weibl. Vom., tschechische und polnische
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Irit 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the duden-vornamen-2007 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)Irit 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 Indonesian, economical, frugal, thrifty
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jmd, fan for fanning the fire
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, draw, drag, haul
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In sas, pull, drag
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, to drag
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)- Irit Meirb. 1957ILIsraeli linguist (1957–2018)
- Irit Linurb. 1961ILIsraeli writer
- Irit Dinurb. 1973ILIsraeli mathematician
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Irit a male or female name?
- Irit is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Irit mean?
- Recorded meaning: ) Irith: seit Mitte des 20.Jh.s entlehnter weibl.
- Which countries have the most people named Irit?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named אירית in Israel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Poland and Cyprus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Irit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 342 people named Irit in 2020, about 1 in 973 thousand residents.
- How common is Irit compared with other names?
- In Israel, Irit is the 191st most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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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, “Irit” — the 191st most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.