Irena

Where Irena comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Irena.

  • Vowel-ended
Irena through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls, with 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #560
    11 babies named Irena, its best rank.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1910
    Irena Sendler born
    Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
  5. 1946
    Irena Szewińska born
    Polish sprinter and sports official
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Irena Sendler · Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer, 1910–2008
  • Irena Szewińska · Polish sprinter and sports official, 1946–2018
  • Irena Veisaitė · Lithuanian academic, 1928–2020
  • Irena Degutienė · Lithuanian politician, born 1949
  • Irena Kwiatkowska · Polish actress, 1912–2011

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.