Ira
Ira is ranked 975th among boys in 2024 (230 births). Its best rank was 57th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #975down 97 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2300.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1947884 births
- Best rank
- #57in 1881
- Since 1880
- 62,006people given the name
The story in the numbers
55,104 boys have been named Ira in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 884 births.
The name has all but left use: 230 births in 2024, against 884 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 6,902 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ira | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,379 | |
| 1890s | 1,916 | |
| 1900s | 1,714 | |
| 1910s | 6,115 | |
| 1920s | 7,911 | |
| 1930s | 5,838 | |
| 1940s | 7,156 | |
| 1950s | 7,026 | |
| 1960s | 4,412 | |
| 1970s | 3,107 | |
| 1980s | 2,098 | |
| 1990s | 1,184 | |
| 2000s | 1,070 | |
| 2010s | 1,805 | |
| 2020s | 1,373 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Ira was the 216th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Ira
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wileypeak 1921
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Fredpeak 1924
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Adolphuspeak 1922
- Newtonpeak 1919
- Harrypeak 1918
- Enospeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.