Ira — #974 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ira

The Social Security Administration has registered 55,104 babies named Ira between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ira currently holds the #974 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 884 babies received it in a single year. Ira is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6,902 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ira performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 7,911 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ira shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 7,638 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Ira in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ira in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 55,104 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.