Iraida

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.

• Spanish:/iɾaiða/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Iraida is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Puerto Rico

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Iraïda

• Russian given name46 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

  Also written Ираида, Іраїда, Іраіда, Ирайда, Іраида

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Iraída, Iraïda

• Latvian given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, United States, Russia

  Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

  Also written Iraīda

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Iraida is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, in Spanien geläufiger weibl. Vom.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Russian, "citizeness."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Ir, pastāv

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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.

• Iraida Zeestb. 1902RUSoviet scientist in archaeology and history (1902-1981)
• Iraida Viktorovna Makarovab. 1929RURussian botanist
• Iraida Polancob. 1934actress (–2008)

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).

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.

44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Iraida mean, and where does it come from?

Greek; means ‘descendant of Hera’ (from Hera). Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.

How do you pronounce Iraida?

In Spanish /iɾaiða/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Iraida a male or female name?

Iraida is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Venezuela (asosab), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Estonia (Statistics Estonia), among others.

Which countries have the most people named Iraida?

In Venezuela, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Iraida, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iraida. After it come Cuba, Peru, United States and Puerto Rico; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Iraida?

In Venezuela, the national register counted 6,043 people named Iraida, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.

How common is Iraida compared with other names?

In Venezuela, Iraida is the 528th most common given name of 218,181 given names recorded there.