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
Grammatical form

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

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.