Ira is a Hebrew name meaning ‘watchful’. Since 2010, Ira’s popularity has been rising rapidly again.
Ira is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
The name Ira isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Ira ranks 878. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Ira. In the entire USA, approximately 46,227 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ira. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Ira is a Hebrew name meaning ‘watchful’. Since 2010, Ira’s popularity has been rising rapidly again.
The Latin word 'ira' means... rage or 'anger', but it just happens to be spelled the same as the name Ira.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Ira is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Ira for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Therefore, Ira is one of the 442 boys' names, that have been given to newborn sons every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Ira is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: Placed at #54 Ira has never been more popular than back in 1881.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 482 babies were named Ira in the USA in 2022, ranking it #564 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2008, when it was only ranked at #1,345 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics - back then 114 boys were named Ira.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Ira is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.
If your name is Ira and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ira, you can simply say:
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ira
Ira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ira sounds like this:
