Irma (name)
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. The Georgian given name "Irma" comes from Georgian word "iremi" - deer.
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Irmeli, Irmelin, Irmhild, Irmin |
Irma is a female given name.[1]
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
References
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