Irmela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Irma
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪʁməla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Irmela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 59K(inferred from the name graph)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 6.4K
- SISlovenia1 in 350K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Irma
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Irmela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | Irmela | 71 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Irmela | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 681K | — | Irmela | 6 |
| US United States | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Irmela | 50 |
| PL Poland | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 967K | listed | Irmela | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 425K | — | Irmela | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 6 | 1 in 350K | 6 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the pl-dane-pesel register; SURS — resident population given names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Irmela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, diminutive of irm- 'whole, strong'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Irmela Wendtb. 1916DEGerman author and translator (1916–2012)
- Irmela Hofmannb. 1924DEGerman author (1924–2003)
- Irmela Brenderb. 1935DEGerman writer (1935–2017)
- Irmela Hammelsteinb. 1942DEGerman politician (1942-1995)
- Irmela Mensah-Schrammb. 1945DEGerman activist
- Irmela von der Lüheb. 1947DEGerman writer
- Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereitb. 1948DEGerman japanologist
- Irmela Hannoverb. 1954DEGerman television presenter and journalist
- Irmela Erckenbrechtb. 1958DEGerman author
- Irmela Bosslerb. 2000DEGerman university teacher
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #27,567 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 10 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 10 | — |
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 Irmela mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Irma Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Irmela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Irmela in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled irmela.
- How do you pronounce Irmela?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪʁməla/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Irmela a male or female name?
- Irmela 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.
- What are other forms of the name Irmela?
- In the etymology graph, Irma is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Irmela?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16 people named Irmela, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Irmela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/irmelaThe 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, “Irmela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.