Given name & surname

Iro

Iro is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish and Ingrian.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Iro isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Iro through the years

Babies since 1880
13
13 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2024
7 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02462025Highest share 20240.0
Iro in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2020–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Iro’s family of names

In Ingrian usage, Iro has a conventional equivalent in the English form Irene.

Walk Iro’s family in the name graph

IroIreneHeroArgyroΑργυρώ

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Iro

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Iro, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Modern

Ilman

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Ansor

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Yidi

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Amirus

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Uzias

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Nivam

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Modern

Zymair

0Not recently recorded

>99% boys

Japanese · Modern

Tanjiro

“the prized second-born son”

11Very rareRising fast

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Iro’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Iro