🔥Ira
EYE-ra; EE-ra
Hebrew, Russian, Greek
"watchful one; peace"Share
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Updated Thu Apr 18 2024
Ira Origin and Meaning
The name Ira is a girl's name of Hebrew, Russian origin meaning "watchful one; peace".
Ira for a girl can be either a Russian short form of Irina, meaning "peace", or a gender-switch of the Hebrew male name Ira.
Annette Bening and Warren Beatty broke the ice by using this Old Testament male standard as the middle name of their daughter Isabel, and food writer Molly Yeh named her second daughter Ira Dorothy in 2022, sister to Bernadette "Bernie".
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Ira in Pop Culture
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