Iren

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Iren is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 203◐
  • NONorway1 in 4.9K
  • SESweden1 in 13K

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

≈51K ●

across 14 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
78 ●

1.9K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 203 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

IrenLatin · Hungarian●720K records
ᲘრენGeorgian · Georgian●75 records
I人Han · Chinese●0 records

Locally spelled Ირენ in GE Georgia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Iren is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#4748,125△503 rec.1 in 20348KIren78
NO Norway—1,105△15 rec.1 in 4.9K3.9KIren10
SE Sweden—816△15 rec.1 in 13K816—8
US United States—562570 rec.1 in 592K562Iren60
RO Romania—19452 rec.——Iren18
RU Russia—138128 rec.——Iren23
PH Philippines—111112 rec.——Iren8
ES Spain—90△20 rec.1 in 556K90—12
GB United Kingdom—7135 rec.——Iren29
GE Georgia—5037 rec.1 in 80K50Ირენ9
AM Armenia#9485024 rec.——Iren16
NL Netherlands—44△7 rec.1 in 393K44—7

Roughly 48K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 203). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Hungarian720K96%
  • English5.7K1%
  • Norwegian Bokmål3.9K1%
  • Spanish3.1K1%
  • Norwegian2.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian719,72396%
English5,7411%
Norwegian Bokmål3,9101%
Spanish3,1131%
Norwegian2,6181%

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◐

Iren is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name7.8K records spelled Iren11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Irèn, Irén, Íren

  • Spanish given name7.8K records spelled Iren8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Irén, Ireñ, Irèn

  • Indonesian given name2.2K records spelled Iren4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Russia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Iren, Irén

  • Swahili given name1.3K records spelled Iren4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Philippines, United States, South Africa

    Also written Irén

  • a separate given name928 records spelled Iren3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States

    Also written Irén, Irèn

  • French given name738 records spelled Iren5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Irén, Irèn, Ireñ

  • a separate given name654 records spelled Iren4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Norway, United Kingdom

    Also written Irén, Irèn, Irėn

39 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●

Iren is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, third-person plural personal infinitive of ir

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

  • In Luxembourgish, superseded spelling of ieren

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

  • In ang, alternative form of īsern

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of ire

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

  • In Turkish, Özgür, hür.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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●

0204060196019701980199060 · 1968

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Iren in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1951–1994
Yearrecords
195130
195232
195320
195420
195541
195646
195737
195838
195940
196042
196137
196231
196328
196436
196541
196634
196754
196860
196941
197046
197129
197232
197328
197435
197523
197614
197716
197818
197920
198023
198114
198220
198314
198416
198512
198611
19877
19894
19906
199110
19945

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 41 years between 1951–1994. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Iren Matuška, b. 1892Iren Nigg, b. 1955Iren Eichenberger, b. 1957Anne-Iren Hübner, b. 1959Ket Iren Lødemel, b. 1964Iren Reppen, b. 1965Jane Iren Wilberg, b. 1970Iren Lill, b. 1971Anna Irene Molberg, b. 1990Sara Iren Lindbak Hørte, b. 2000

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 58 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Iren
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.9K#735
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20251.1K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—648#2,302
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020562#16,074
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—493—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020176—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020145#16,074
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—90#17,197
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—71#6,751
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—65#933
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—62#10,309
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—55#11,869

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 291 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Iren?
We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Iren (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Iren have the most bearers?
We estimate about 48 thousand people bear Iren in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled iren.
Where is Iren most common?
Iren is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 203 people carrying it.
How common is Iren compared with other names?
In Hungary, Iren is the 47th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
Is Iren a male or female name?
Iren 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.
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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, “Iren” — the 47th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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