Entry № 4620 · Arabic origin

Iram Iram — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-RAHM /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Garden of paradise"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "garden of paradise".

Iram (إرم) is the Arabic name for the legendary Iram of the Pillars — a lost city of paradise mentioned in the Quran (Surah Al-Fajr). By extension, "paradise garden."

Iram is widely used in Pakistan and the Arab world.

Garden of paradise — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

إرم
Transliteration
Iram
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈrɑːm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iram stands.

Iram 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.

Irams before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iram of the Pillars
Lost city in the Quran.
Quran 89:6-14

Names connected to Iram.

The number behind Iram.

5

The Seeker

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