Irma

• Erma

From German Irma in the nineteenth century. Short form of Germanic names beginning with irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz. Cognate with English Emma.

Irma

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1939, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Flying Goat, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, published 1995, →ISBN, page 52:

     - - -, she thanked God for Irma: thanked God that Irma's hair was rich and beautiful, that she had the aristocratic richness of a name like Irma and not the common poverty of a name like May or Flo;

2. A village in Alberta, Canada.
3. A village in Lombardy, Italy.
4. An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

• Amir, Mair, Mari, Mira, RAIM, RIMA, amir, mair, raim, rami, rima

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪrma]

Irma f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Irma

Irma

1. a female given name of German origin

Borrowed from German Irma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪr.maː/

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• Hyphenation: Ir‧ma

Irma f

1. a female given name

Irma

1. a female given name of German origin

Irma f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Irma: Irmuson
• daughter of Irma: Irmudóttir

From German Irma in the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈirmɑ/, [ˈirmɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ir‧ma

Irma

1. a female given name

• Irmeli

• Irma is the 78^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 9,746 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,087 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Armi, Mari, Mira, Rami, armi, mari, rami, rima

• IPA^(key): /iʁ.ma/

Irma f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Irma

Short form of female compound given names beginning with the Germanic element irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire". Made popular through nineteenth century German fiction.

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Irma

1. a female given name
   • 1865 Berthold Auerbach, Auf der Hohe (translated as On the Heights by Simon Adler Stern):

     Die Angst gewann die Uebermacht, und wie ein Hülfeschrei aus der Tiefe rang sich von die Lippen der Königin der Ruf los: "Irma! Irma!" und Irma! Irma! tönte es wieder und wieder von den Bergen. Die weite Welt ringsum rief den Namen Irma...

     Fear gained the mastery and, with a wailing shriek for help, she cried out: "Irma! Irma!" and "Irma, Irma" was echoed again and again from the mountains. The whole world was shouting Irma's name.

• Irmgard
• Irmela, Irmelin

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1888. From German Irma.

Irma f

1. a female given name

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Irma was the only given name of 803 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Irma f

1. a female given name

Derived from German Irma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈirma/

Irma f (genitive singular Irmy, nominative plural Irmy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• Irmuša, Irmuška
• Irmuľa

• “Irma”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɾma/ [ˈiɾ.ma]
• Rhymes: -iɾma
• Syllabification: Ir‧ma

Irma f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Irma

From German Irma. First recorded in Sweden in 1868.

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Irma c (genitive Irmas)

1. a female given name

• Mari