Irania
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of iranio
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/irania/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Irania is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 23Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 29Kfew records
- HNHonduras≈1 in 44Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)feminine singular of iranio
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Irania is read
(measured from records)Irania is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish72%
feminine singular of iranio
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
A bird, Irania gutturalis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Irania in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Irania 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 200K | 1 | Irania | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Irania | 18 |
| US United States | — | 402 | 1 in 827K | 400 | Irania | 79 |
| NI Nicaragua | #713 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Irania | 12 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Irania | 7 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Irania | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | #862 | 110 | 1 in 46K | 110 | Irania | 6 |
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 mx-cdmx-nombres register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)Irania is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Mežastrazdu apakšdzimtas 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.
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 400 | #24,098 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 110 | #2,041 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 91 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Irania mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of iranio Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Irania?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /irania/; in Portuguese /iɾɐniɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Irania a male or female name?
- Irania is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- In which country does Irania have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 654 people named Irania in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irania.
- How common is the name Irania?
- In the United States, the national register counted 402 people named Irania in 2020, about 1 in 827 thousand residents.
- How common is Irania compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Irania is the 713th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iraniaThe 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, “Irania” — the 713th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.