Entry № 4653 · Greek origin

Iro Iro — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-roh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Hera (modern Greek)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "hera (modern greek)".

Iro (Ηρώ) is the modern Greek pronunciation of Hera — queen of the Olympian gods, wife of Zeus. Among the most poetic modern Greek feminine names.

Featured in modern Greek literature.

Hera (modern Greek) — a Greek name.

The name in its native script.

Ηρώ
Transliteration
Ērṓ
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.roʊ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iro stands.

Iro 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.

Iros before her.

Real people
Iro Sakellariou
Greek poet.
In fiction
Iro
Marlowe's Hero and Leander.
1598

Names connected to Iro.

The number behind Iro.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iro reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.