Irena

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Irene [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

See Irene

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Irenuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Irenudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Irena
Genitive: Irenas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Irena
Accusative: Irenu
Dative: Irenu
Genitive: Irenu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Irena
Genitive: Irenan
Partitive: Irenaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Irena
Accusative: Irenu
Dative: Irenu
Genitive: Irenu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Irena
Genitive: Irenas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Irena
Genitive: Irenas

Name Day

Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

5 April

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

Please turn your device to landscape orientation for better view of statistics tables and graphs.
Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
878 1412 878 1412 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
349
n.a.
349
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
332
n.a.
332 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
72 115
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
5 7
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
344
n.a.
344
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Irena.


References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  4. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no