Ira has parallel origins. In Sanskrit (इरा), Ira is an epithet of the goddess Saraswati and means "earth" or "speech." In Hebrew (עִירָא), it means "watchful" — used historically as a masculine name in the Bible.
Ira is used as a unisex name in modern India and English-speaking countries. Ira Khan (born 1997) is the daughter of Aamir Khan.
Ira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ira reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.