Names beginning with I

Idia

Iyoba (Queen Mother of Benin who led armies)

Edo/Bini

Ieva

Life (Baltic form of Eve)

Latvian/Lithuanian

Iida

Industrious (Finnish form of Ida; top Finnish name)

Finnish/Germanic

Ildikó

Battle (Attila's last wife)

Hungarian/Germanic

Ilona

Bright one (Hungarian Helen)

Hungarian/Greek

Imelda

Universal battle (Imelda Marcos; Imelda Staunton)

Spanish/Germanic

India

Land of the Indus / India.Arie's Grammy soul; Gone with the Wind

English/Greek

Indradevi

Khmer queen and Sanskrit scholar (Jayavarman VII's wife)

Sanskrit/Khmer

Indumathi

Moon-shining (Sanskrit)

Sanskrit/Tamil

Inez

Pure (Inez de Castro; Inez Milholland suffragist)

Spanish/Greek

Innes

Island

Scottish/Gaelic

Iolanda

Violet flower (Italian form of Yolanda)

Italian/Portuguese

Iram

Garden of paradise

Arabic/Urdu

Ireland

Land of the Irish (Ireland Baldwin, model + the country)

English/Old Norse

Irena

Peace (Irena Sendler, rescued 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw Ghetto)

Polish/Greek

Irina

Peace (Russian + Greek Eirene saint)

Russian/Greek

Iryna

Peace

Ukrainian/Greek

Isabel

Consecrated to God (Isabel Allende; Queen Isabel I of Castile)

Spanish/Hebrew

Isabelle

Consecrated to God (Isabelle Huppert; Isabelle Adjani)

French/Hebrew

Iseult

Tristan and Iseult - medieval romance

Celtic/Other

Iskra

Spark

Bulgarian/Slavic

Issa

Salvation / Jesus (Issa Rae, Insecure creator)

Arabic/Swahili

Itzayana

Gift of God (Yucatec Maya heritage)

Mayan/Nahuatl