Irina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ирина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Erin in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 3 more, Irena in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, HR Croatia and Ірина in UA Ukraine, 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●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Irina is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name257K records spelled Irina15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Palestine, Russia

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Ìrina, Irīna

• Spanish given name227K records spelled Irina12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Brazil, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan

  Also written Ïrinä, Írina, Irinä, Ìrina, Irīna

• Romanian given name75K records spelled Irina5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Moldova, Romania, United States, Italy

  Also written Irinâ, Irinà

• Estonian given name67K records spelled Irina7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Russia

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian

  Also written Irinä, Ĭṝina, Iriná, Irinà

• a separate given name14K records spelled Irina4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Romania

  Also written Ìrina, Irīna, Irīnā

80 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●

Irina 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 Russian, "peace."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Swedish, Irina är en rysk form av → Irene.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Forme apparentée à Irène, du grec eirênê, « paix ». Fête/saint non indiqué.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In German, weibl. Vom., russische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Russian form of IRENE , one of the commonest of all female names in the Soviet Union. Variant: Arina (much less common). Pet form: Orya .

  as a word

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 77 years between 1932–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Irène Némirovskyb. 1903FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist (1903–1942)
• Irina Skobtsevab. 1927RUSoviet and Russian actress (1927-2020)
• Irina Pressb. 1939UASoviet athlete (1939-2004)
• Irina Bokovab. 1952BGBulgarian diplomat
• Irina Allegrovab. 1952RURussian singer
• Irina Rozanovab. 1961RUSoviet and Russian actress
• Iryna Farionb. 1964UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian linguist and politician (1964–2024)
• Iryna Vereshchukb. 1979UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
• Irina Shaykb. 1986RURussian model and television personality (born 1986)
• Irina-Camelia Begub. 1990RORomanian female tennis player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 994 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Irina?

We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Irina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Irina have the most bearers?

Irina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled ирина.

How common is Irina compared with other names?

In Russia, Irina is the 10th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Irina a male or female name?

Irina 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 Irina mean?

Recorded meaning: Slavic form of Irène, from Greek Eirēnē, 'peace'.