Irma (name)

Irma

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	German
Other names
Related names	Irmeli, Irmelin, Irmhild, Irmin

Irma is a female given name.

It is also used in combination with other names in the abbreviated form "Irm-," for example, Irmine, Irmela, Irmgard, Irmgardis, and Irmentraud. The name comes from the Old High German "irmin", meaning "world". The Georgian given name "Irma" comes from the Georgian word "iremi"—"deer".

The name days for Irma are February 19 (Germany), March 31 (Estonia, Finland), April 7 (Sweden), May 3 (Hungary), September 10 (Czech Republic), September 18 (Poland), October 13 (Latvia), October 25 (USA), and November 14 (Slovakia).

People

• Irma, Cameroonian singer/songwriter
• Irma Baltuttis, German singer
• Irma Brandeis, American Dante scholar
• Irma Capece Minutolo, Italian opera singer
• Irma Flaquer, Guatemalan government critic
• Irma Grese, German Nazi SS Holocaust concentration camp supervisor executed for war crimes
• Irma Hannah Gross, American home economist
• Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch freestyle swimmer
• Irma Huerta, Mexican freestyle swimmer
• Irma Khetsuriani, Georgian wheelchair fencer
• Irma Kukkasjärvi, Finnish textile artist
• Irma Kurtz (born 1935), American-born UK-based agony aunt
• Irma de Malkhozouny, Serbian ballet dancer
• Irma May, Polish social reformer
• Irma McClaurin, American poet and anthropologist
• Irma Miranda, Mexican model, TV Host and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mexicana Universal 2022
• Irma Nioradze, Georgian ballerina
• Irma S. Raker, American lawyer
• Irma Poma Canchumani (born 1969), Peruvian artist and environmental defender
• Irma Rangel, American politician
• Irma S. Rombauer, cookbook author
• Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros, Mexican academic
• Irma Serrano, Mexican actress
• Irma Stern, South African painter
• Irma St. Paule, Ukrainian-born American character actress
• Irma Theoda Jones, American philanthropist
• Irma Thomas, soul singer
• Irma Toivanen (1922–2010), Finnish politician and teacher
• Irma Voigt (1882–1953), American educator
• Irma von Cube, American screenwriter

Fictional characters

• Irma (comics), a character from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
• Irma, the title character of Irma la Douce (1963), a comedy film by Billy Wilder
• Irma, the title character of the My Friend Irma television and radio situation comedies and a 1949 film
• Irma Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Irma Bunt, from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
• Irma Gobb, a character from the British sitcom Mr. Bean and its animated series.
• Irma Lair, character in W.I.T.C.H. series
• Irma Langinstein, in the 1987-1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and Archie TMNT Adventures comics
• Irma Leopold, a character from Joan Lindsay's novel Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Irma Pince, librarian in the Harry Potter series
• Irma Crabbe, character in the Harry Potter series
• Irma the waitress, character in the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis
• Irma Homais, daughter of fictional apothecary, M. Homais, and a minor character in Flaubert's Madame Bovary
• Irma Vep, character in the film within a film central to the 1996 French film titled Irma Vep
• 'Irma', lieutenant of Colony Mu who is also the Consul I, in Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Irma Steiner, a character of the anime and manga Edens Zero and the mother of Weisz Steiner

Other uses

• Hurricane Irma, 2017
• Hamilton women's watch Irma, 1952

See also

• Irma (disambiguation)
• Erma (disambiguation)

External links

• Behind the Name