Irena
Meaning
peace (Polish form of Irene)
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Irena has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
2,113 people · the #4,922 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 100,000 · median age 70
Among people named Irena living in Brazil at the 2022 census, roughly as many were born in the 1940s as in the 1950s, more than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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