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Irma

Rank in 2024
#2,613
Born in 2024
67
Peak year
1920 · #164
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 67 girls were named Irma, about 1 in every 24,077.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 1,393 babies, ranked #164.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 73,717 girls have been named Irma since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Irma per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.2
    Greatest
  2. 0.7
    Silent
  3. 0.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 24,105 babies, 1.18 per 1,000. Silent: 15,145 babies, 0.73 per 1,000. Boomers: 16,752 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,413 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,986 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,096 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 754 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From German Irma in the nineteenth century. Short form of Germanic names beginning with irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz. Cognate with English Emma.

  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Origin
Germanic
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Irma, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Erma

    Rank
    #7,816
    Born '24
    14
    Origin
    Germanic
    1880peak 19202024