Iracema
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a female given name of Brazilian usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɾɐsemɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iracema is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 598K
- UYUruguay1 in 9.5K
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)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
67,397 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name of Brazilian usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Iracema is read(measured from records)
Iracema is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese88%
a female given name of Brazilian usage
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish9.4%
Tupí; ‘exit of the honey’ or ‘exit of the bees’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iracema 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #407 | 67,397 | 1 in 3.1K | 88K | Iracema | 123 |
| AO Angola | #522 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Iracema | 19 |
| US United States | — | 556 | 1 in 598K | 554 | Iracema | 109 |
| UY Uruguay | #396 | 358 | 1 in 9.5K | 358 | Iracema | 13 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Iracema | 38 |
| GT Guatemala | #792 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Iracema | 12 |
67,397 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Iracema de Alencarb. 1900BRBrazilian actress
- Nora Neyb. 1922BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer
- Iracema Arditib. 1924BRBrazilian painter (1924-2006)
- Iracema M. Régisb. 1952BRBrazilian writer, poet and literary critic
- Iracema Portelab. 1966BRBrazilian politician
- Iracema Valeb. 1968BRnurse, public servant and Brazilian politician
- Iracema Sousa dos Santosb. 1980BRBrazilian politician
- Iracema Trevisanb. 1981BRBrazilian musician
- Iracema StarlingBRBrazilian actress
- Iracema Hollanda Limabotanist
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 88K | #514 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 88K | #182 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 67K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 67K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 67K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67K | #457 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 67K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 66K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 62K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 53K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 37K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 19K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Iracema mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name of Brazilian usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Iracema?
- A machine transcription gives /iɾɐsemɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Iracema a male or female name?
- Iracema 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.
- In which country does Iracema have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 67 thousand people named Iracema, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iracema.
- Where is Iracema most common?
- Iracema is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Iracema?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67,397 people named Iracema in 2022, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Iracema compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Iracema is the 407th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iracema?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iracemaThe 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, “Iracema” — the 407th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.