Irena
Where Irena comes from
Irena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
- Vowel-ended
Along the way
- 1880First SSA yearAlready #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
- 1882Peak, #56011 babies named Irena — more than any year before or since.
- 1884The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births.
- 1910Irena Sendler bornPolish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
- 1946Irena Szewińska bornPolish sprinter and sports official
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
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.