Entry № 4631 · Polish origin

Irena Irena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-REN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Polish
Meaning
"Peace (Irena Sendler, rescued 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw Ghetto)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Polish)

A name that means "peace (irena sendler, rescued 2,500 jewish children from warsaw ghetto)".

Irena is the Polish and Slavic form of the Greek Irene — from eirēnē ("peace"). Honored as Righteous Among the Nations (1965).

Peace (Irena Sendler, rescued 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw Ghetto) — a Polish name.

The name in its native script.

Irena
Transliteration
Irena
Pronunciation
/ ɪˈrɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Irena stands.

Irena 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.

Irenas before her.

Real people
Irena Sendler
Polish Righteous Among the Nations.
1910 – 2008
In fiction
Irena
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.
2009 film

Names connected to Irena.

The number behind Irena.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Irena reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.