Irma (name)
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| Irma | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Irmeli, Irmelin, Irmin |
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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, Irmentraud. The name comes from the Old High German irmin, meaning world. The anglicised form is Emma. Related to the Hebrew word for Mother - "EeMaH."
The name days for Irma are February 19 (Germany), April 7 (Sweden), November 14 (Slovakia), September 18 (Poland), March 31 (Finland), May 3 (Hungary), October 13 (Latvia), and October 25 (USA).
People
- Irma (singer), Cameroon singer/songwriter
- Irma S. Rombauer, cookbook author
- Irma Rangel (Texas politician)
- Irma Baltuttis, German singer
- Irma Brandeis, American Dante scholar
- Irma Capece Minutolo, Italian opera singer
- Irma Flaquer, Guatemalan government critic
- Irma Grese, Holocaust concentration camp supervisor
- Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch freestyle swimmer
- Irma Huerta, Mexican freestyle swimmer
- Irma Nioradze, Georgian ballerina
- Irma S. Raker, American lawyer
- Irma Serrano, Mexican actress
- Irma Thomas, soul singer
- Irma von Cube, American screenwriter
Fictional characters
- the title character of Irma la Douce, a 1963 comedy film by Billy Wilder
- the title character of the My Friend Irma television and radio situation comedies and a 1949 film
- Irma Bunt, villain from Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Irma Lair, character in W.I.T.C.H. series
- Irma, a character from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
- Irma Langinstein, in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon
- Irma Pince, librarian in the Harry Potter series
- Irma Leopold, a character from the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
