Gender-neutral · #819 in 2025

Ira

Ira: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#819
Born 2025
301
Peak year
1881

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Ira per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1881. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Ira has been rising: its share of boys born has grown over the last 10 years. It now stands at 6% of its 1881 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 38% of children named Ira were recorded as girls and 62% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.