Irma (name)
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Irmeli, Irmelin, Irmhild, Irmin |
Irma is a female given name.[1]
It is also used in combination with other names in the abbreviated form "Irm-," for example, Irmine, Irmela, Irmgard, Irmgardis, Irmentraud. The name comes from the Old High German irmin, meaning world. The anglicised form is Emma[citation needed]. The Georgian given name "Irma" comes from Georgian word "iremi" - deer.
The name days for Irma are February 19 (Germany), March 31 (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 Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch freestyle swimmer
- Irma Huerta, Mexican freestyle swimmer
- Irma Khetsuriani, Georgian wheelchair fencer
- Irma Kurtz (born 1935), American-born UK-based agony aunt
- Irma Lanzas (1933–2020), Salvadoran writer and educator
- Irma de Malkhozouny, Serbian ballet dancer
- Irma May, Polish social reformer
- Irma McClaurin, American poet and anthropologist
- Irma Nioradze, Georgian ballerina
- Irma S. Raker, American lawyer
- 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 Thomas, soul singer
- 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 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 Harry Potter series
- Irma the waitress, character in the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis
Other uses
- Hurricane Irma, 2017
- Hamilton women's watch Irma, 1952
See also
References
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