Íris

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Íris is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Honduras it is the 22nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Icelandic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: iris (plant of the genus Iris), or its flower.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras1 in 545◐
  • ILIsrael1 in 745
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 825

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈206K ●

across 11 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
373 ●

796K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 269 ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

ÍrisLatin · Spanish●906K records
איריסHebrew · Hebrew●92K records
ΊριςGreek · Greek●12 records
ᲘრისGeorgian · Georgian●11 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Iris in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 18 more and איריס in IL Israel, FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

iris (plant of the genus Iris), or its flower

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Íris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#390239,608156K rec.—401Iris87
VE Venezuela#198128,39455K rec.——Iris66
PE Peru#35394,66977K rec.——Iris66
IL Israel#11490,60591K rec.—33איריס66
MX Mexico#39986,80663K rec.——Iris163
US United States—80,410129K rec.1 in 4.1K80KIris373
CL Chile#22067,5633.8K rec.—1Iris89
BR Brazil#49656,795△18K rec.1 in 3.7K57KIris135
HN Honduras#2233,57933K rec.——Iris49
SV El Salvador#11732,85026K rec.——Iris45
FR France—23,600△128 rec.1 in 2.9K24Kאיריס4
UY Uruguay#8920,81514K rec.——Iris37

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese51K94%
  • Icelandic3.5K6%
  • French221%
  • Danish191%
  • Spanish171%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese51,46894%
Icelandic3,4536%
French221%
Danish191%
Spanish171%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Íris is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name117 records spelled Íris27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Germany, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Iris, Iriş, Ir'Is, Irís, Irïs

  • a separate given name92 records spelled Íris5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada

    Also written Iris, Īrīs, Irís, Iriş

  • French given name31 records spelled Íris6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Netherlands

    Also written Iris, Irïs, Iriş, Irîs, Irís

  • Croatian given name12 records spelled Íris70 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Kazakhstan, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Kazakh

    Also written Iris, Аирис, Айрис, Ирис, Ірис

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Íris is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Slovak, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Iris

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Iloko, green stool of babies

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In phi-pro, watery diarrhea

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0510152015202015 · 2019

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Íris in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2015–2020
Yearrecords
201511
201611
201710
201811
201915
202013

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 6 years between 2015–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Íris Meinberg, b. 1908Íris Bruzzi, b. 1935Íris Lettieri, b. 1941Íris Pereira de Souza, b. 1945Íris Abravanel, b. 1948Íris Nascimento, b. 1958Íris Bustamante, b. 1969Íris Stefanelli, b. 1979Bergrún Íris Sævarsdóttir, b. 1985Íris Tanja Flygenring, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Íris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—50K#779
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261.3K#92
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 202320231.1K#26
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005880#37
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—31#3,632
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21#23,681
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201915—
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021)202113#32
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202013—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201811—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201611—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201511—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Íris?
We estimate roughly 206 thousand people bear Íris (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Íris have the most bearers?
Íris is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled iris.
Where is Íris most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Íris is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 269 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Íris compared with other names?
In Argentina, Íris is the 390th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Íris a male or female name?
Íris is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Íris mean?
Recorded meaning: iris (plant of the genus Iris), or its flower
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Íris” — the 390th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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