Irma
Irma Origin and Meaning
A Top 200 choice in the US from the late 1880s to the early 1930s, Irma has nevertheless fallen out of favor with modern parents, and doesn't look set for the sort of comeback that some of her vintage sisters have enjoyed in recent years. The devastating hurricane which hit the Caribbean Islands and the south-east coast of the US in 2017 has no doubt dealt its chances of revival a further blow.
Derived from the Germanic element irmin, it was originally used as a short form for other names containing that element, such as Irmhild. It was adopted by the English speaking world in the 19th century, and was used alongside spelling variant, Erma, perhaps due to its similarity to the timeless classic, Emma, which derives from the same root.
Once popular in France and Latvia, it is now out of the charts there too.
Does that meaning Irma is lost forever? Not at all. In the US at least, it was given to around 70 babies in a recent year, having recovered from its dip after the hurricane. Add the baby Ermas to this and around 100 babies received the name.
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Irma Rank in US Top 1000
Irma Popularity
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Famous People Named Irma
- Irma (Pany)Cameroonian,born French singer,songwriter
- Irma AchtenDutch filmmaker & writer
- Irma Santonil AdlawanFilipina film actress
- Irma Baltuttis (1920'58), German singer;
- Irma BlancoAmerican radio personality from LA
- Irma BoomDutch graphic designer
- Irma CarmonaLatin American voice actress
- Irma ChiltonWelsh children's author
- Irma Christenson (1915'93), Swedish actress
- Irma CordobaArgentine film actress
- Irma Capece MinutoloItalian former opera singer
- Irma DimasMiss El Salvador 2005
- Irma DorantesMexican actress, ranchera singer & Pedro Infante's wife
- Irma ErixsonSwedish actress
- Irma Gonzalezfirst Mexican,American female federal judge
- Irma Pamela HallAmerican actress
- Irmã Dulce Pontes (born Maria Rita de Souza Pontes)blessed Brazilian nun
- Irma HuertaMexican freestyle swimmer
- Irma Margarita "Maga" Nevares de Rossellowife of Puerto Rican Governor Pedro Rosselló
- Irma Schultz KellerSwedish actress & pop singer
- Irma KliauzaiteLithuanian pianist
- Irma KurtiAlbanian poet & writer
- Irma Lozadafirst female officer to die in line of duty in New York
- Irma MauryPeruvian actress
- Irma NewmarkAmerican feminist
- Irma NioradzeGeorgian ballerina
- Irma PaneIndonesian American pop singer
- Irma PatkosHungarian actress
- Irma Yakovlevna RaushRussian actress
- Irma Starkloff RombauerAmerican cookbook author
- Irma SanchezMexican boxer
- Irma HiejtingSchuhmacher, German freestyle swimmer & medalist
- Irma SeikkulaFinnish actress
- Irma Consuelo Cielo SerranoMexican singer
- Irma ThomasAmerican singer
- Irma UrteagaArgentinian composer & pianist
- Irma WymanAmerican early computer engineer & first CIO of Honeywell
- Irma Codydaughter of William ("Buffalo Bill")F. Cody
Irma in Pop Culture
- Irma Barlowmain character of British soap "Coronation Street" (1964)
- Irma Buntvillain in 1969 Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
- Irma Langinsteinfriend of April O'Neal in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Irma GobbMr. Bean's girlfriend
- Irma Leopoldcharacter from Joan Lindsay's novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
- "Irma Jackson" 1972 song by Merle Haggard
- "Irma La Douce" French play and film and its main character
- Irma LairGuardian of Water in the "W.I.T.C.H" series
- Irma Pincethe librarian of Hogwarts in the "Harry Potter" series
- Irma Petersonmain character in 1949 film "My Friend Irma"
- "Irma Vep" 1996 French film and its main character
- Operation Irmaairlifts of injured civilians in Bosnia during the war
- Irma Hotellandmark in Cody, Wyoming
- Hurricane Irmaa natural disaster that occurred in September 2017
- Irma the Waitresscharacter in the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis