Irian
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Variant spelling of Welsh Urien; entry notes 'Irian v. Urien'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iˈɾjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Irian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 54K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 81K
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
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
843 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling of Welsh Urien; entry notes 'Irian v. Urien'.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Irian is read(measured from records)
Irian is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish47%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Irian in Spanish.
- Portuguese17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Irian in Portuguese.
- English16%
Variant spelling of Welsh Urien; entry notes 'Irian v. Urien'.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
Of or relating to the iris.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian5.1%
New Guinea (A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Irian 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 | 843 | 1 in 251K | 912 | Irian | 44 |
| CN China | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Irian | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Irian | 15 |
| US United States | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 136 | Irian | 85 |
| HN Honduras | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Irian | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | 63 | 1 in 81K | 63 | Irian | 5 |
| PA Panama | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 2 | — | 6 |
843 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
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 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 912 | #9,757 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 843 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 802 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 732 | #5,698 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 694 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 654 | #9,300 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 573 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 422 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 287 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 193 | #12,007 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 189 | #9,300 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 163 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Irian mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Welsh Urien; entry notes 'Irian v. Urien'. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Irian?
- A machine transcription gives /iˈɾjan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Irian a male or female name?
- Irian 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 Irian have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 843 people named Irian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irian.
- How common is the name Irian?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 843 people named Irian in 2022, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/irianThe 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, “Irian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.