Entry № 4617 · Tupi origin

Iracema Iracema — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-rah-SEH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tupi
Meaning
"Lips of honey"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Tupi)

A name that means "lips of honey".

Iracema combines the Tupi (Brazilian Indigenous) ira (honey) and tembe (lips) — meaning "lips of honey." Iracema is the heroine of José de Alencar's 1865 Brazilian novel Iracema, an Indigenous woman who falls in love with a Portuguese soldier.

Iracema is widely used in Brazil.

Lips of honey. The Brazilian Indigenous heroine.

The name in its native script.

Iracema
Transliteration
Iracema
Pronunciation
/ ˌiː.rəˈsɛm.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Iracema stands.

Iracema 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.

Iracemas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Iracema
Heroine of José de Alencar's novel.
1865 Brazilian novel

Names connected to Iracema.

The number behind Iracema.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iracema reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.