girls:
6.7k births since 1880
#2002 (65th percentile)
boys:
54.9k births since 1880
#465 (90th percentile)
overall:
61.6k births since 1880
#945 (88th percentile)
The name Ira is the #945 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 61,619 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #465 (89.9% percentile) for all time with 54,871 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,002 (65.0% percentile) for all time with 6,748 births since 1880.
Ira has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Ira has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 62.1% of babies named Ira were boys.
For boys, Ira reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 72.4% percentile (ranked #52) with 2,641 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 2,641 births per million (ranked 72.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ira ranks #655 for boys (28.1% percentile) with 144 births per million, which is 5.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ira reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 20.0% percentile (ranked #767) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 164 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ira ranks #791 for girls (16.5% percentile) with 92 births per million, which is 56.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ira".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ira. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ira is pronounced as AI-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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