girls:
2.1k births since 1880
#3725 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1880
#5660 (27th percentile)
The name Irena is the #5,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,127 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 26.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,725 (34.8% percentile) for all time with 2,127 births since 1880.
Irena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Irena is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Irena reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #566) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 95 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Irena ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 13.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irena".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Irena", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 2 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Irina" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Irina..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Irena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.4% confident that Irena is pronounced as ai-REE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-RAY-nuh, at 22.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AY0 R IY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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