Ira

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ira: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ira: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #544, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#544highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#3848
2003	#4373
2007	#2895
2009	#3422
2010	#5707
2011	#2893
2012	#2215
2013	#2460
2014	#1367
2015	#2195
2016	#3214
2017	#2090
2018	#2090
2019	#2458
2020	#1556
2021	#1224
2022	#1452
2023	#1206
2024	#1065

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 20 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1452 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2021–2025
Highest recorded position: #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2021–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #544 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ira appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 23 ranked years and 268 births registered; the earliest is England and Wales · Girls, from 1996.

Ira across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ira's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1065 (2024)	#1065 (2024)	20 of 29	259 (1996–2024)	32 (2024)
England and Wales · Boys	#1761 (1997)	#1104 (2022)	#2263 (2024)	23 of 28	268 (1997–2024)	25 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#883 (2021)	#544 (2025)	#544 (2025)	3 of 5	12 (2021–2025)	6 (2025)

Ira by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ira in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	11	2 of 10	6
2000s	33	6 of 10	6
2010s	122	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	102	5 of 10	20

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ira appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #544 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Ira's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1065	32	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1272	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1452	21	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1184	23	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1150	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1210	22	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1498	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3004	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1367	23	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2460	10	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1796	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3039	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2893	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#544	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #544, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aanya · #544, 27y
Eleonora · #544, 28y
Izzah · #544, 25y
Melek · #544, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aanya · #544, 27y
Eleonora · #544, 28y
Melek · #544, 29y
Nila · #544, 26y

Ira was ranked #544 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ira and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ira without appearing here.

Ira moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1556 and #5493.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2090 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2090 and #5666.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2460 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1367 and #4684.
Debra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1367 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Ira

Filip Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2074 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #1096.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2074 and #924.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1272 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #1132.
Theodor Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1981 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #2199 and #1201.

Moved the opposite way to Ira

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ira

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ira went from #3795 to #1065 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #544 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ira

Ira at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ira across 3 official records

Ira by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ira appears in

Popularity data

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Ira at a glance

Ira across 3 official records

Ira by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Ira appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ira

Ira and the names beside it

Ira moved ahead of

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