Entry № 4621 · Basque origin

Iratxe Iratxe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-RAH-cheh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Forest of ferns (Basque heritage)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Basque)

A name that means "forest of ferns (basque heritage)".

Iratxe is from the Basque iratze (fernery, forest of ferns). Princess Iratxe — Basque heritage naming.

Forest of ferns (Basque).

The name in its native script.

Iratxe
Transliteration
Iratxe
Pronunciation
/ iːˈrɑː.tʃɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iratxe stands.

Iratxe 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.

Iratxes before her.

Real people
Iratxe García Pérez
Spanish-Basque EU S&D President since 2019.
born 1974
In fiction
Iratxe
Basque forest of ferns.

Names connected to Iratxe.

The number behind Iratxe.

5

The Seeker

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