Irmeli
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Irmeli is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A 20th century German type diminutive of Irma.
- FIFinland1 in 206◐
- SESweden1 in 6K
- EEEstonia1 in 64K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 46 ●
- 1 in 206 ◐
across 3 countries
recorded for this name
869 records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ирмели in RU Russia.
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●
A 20th century German type diminutive of Irma.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | #107 | 27,034△ | 595 rec. | 1 in 206 | 34K | Irmeli | 46 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,713△ | 102 rec. | 1 in 6K | 1.7K | Irmeli | 20 |
| US United States | — | 76 | 68 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 25 |
| EE Estonia | — | 66 | 14 rec. | — | 41 | Irmeli | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | 34 | 9 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 13 | 13 rec. | — | 8 | Irmeli | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 13 | 9 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 6 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 10 | 10 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 2 |
| MX Mexico | — | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 4 |
| PE Peru | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 7 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Irmeli | 3 |
Roughly 27K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 206). 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●
- Finnish130K99%
- English3061%
- Portuguese871%
- German841%
- Chinese751%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 129,623 | 99% |
| English | 306 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 87 | 1% |
| German | 84 | 1% |
| Chinese | 75 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 235 |
| 2000 | 235 |
| 2001 | 240 |
| 2002 | 238 |
| 2003 | 240 |
| 2004 | 250 |
| 2005 | 250 |
| 2006 | 251 |
| 2007 | 252 |
| 2008 | 258 |
| 2009 | 259 |
| 2010 | 261 |
| 2011 | 264 |
| 2012 | 264 |
| 2013 | 263 |
| 2014 | 263 |
| 2015 | 263 |
| 2016 | 263 |
| 2017 | 260 |
| 2018 | 258 |
| 2019 | 257 |
| 2020 | 254 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Irmeli Visantib. 1920FIFinnish architect (1920-2003)
- Irmeli Heinänenb. 1923FIFinnish actress (1923–1983)
- Irmeli Niemib. 1931FIFinnish theatre and literary scientist and professor (1931–2008)
- Aila Jokinenb. 1933FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Eeva Ahtisaarib. 1936FInot in their usual nameFinnish history teacher, First Lady
- Tuula-Liina Varisb. 1942FInot in their usual nameFinnish journalist
- Riitta Järvisalob. 1945FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Tuula Haatainenb. 1960FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Kaija Koob. 1962FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Satu Silvob. 1962FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress and entrepreneur
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34K | #107 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.7K | #1,167 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 264 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 264 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 263 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 263 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 263 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 263 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 261 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 260 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 259 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 32 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Irmeli?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Irmeli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Irmeli have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 27 thousand people bear Irmeli in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled irmeli.
- Where is Irmeli most common?
- Irmeli is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 206 people carrying it.
- How common is Irmeli compared with other names?
- In Finland, Irmeli is the 107th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Irmeli a male or female name?
- Irmeli 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 Irmeli mean?
- Recorded meaning: A 20th century German type diminutive of Irma.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/irmeliThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Irmeli” — the 107th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.