Irma is a female
given name
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.
It is also used in combination with other names in the abbreviated form "Irm-," for example, Irmine, Irmela, Irmgard, Irmgardis, and Irmentraud. The name comes from the Old High German "irmin", meaning "world". The Georgian given name "Irma" comes from the Georgian word "iremi"—"deer".
The
name day
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s for Irma are February 19 (Germany), March 31 (Estonia, Finland), April 7 (Sweden), May 3 (Hungary), September 10 (Czech Republic), September 18 (Poland), October 13 (Latvia), October 25 (USA), and November 14 (Slovakia).
The name Irma is popular in the
Balkans
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, particularly in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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and
Croatia
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. Its popularity in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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grew among
Bosniaks
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after the tragic death of five-year-old
Irma Hadžimuratović, a victim of
VRS shelling that hit a
Sarajevo
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neighborhood in 1993 during the
siege of Sarajevo. Following Irma's death,
Operation Irma was the name applied to a series of
airlifts of injured civilians from
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
The male version of Irma is
Irmin (for example,
Irmin Schmidt) or Irman (for example,
Irman Gusman). These male versions are commonly found in
Indonesia
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and
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
[https://www.knjigaimena.com/?znacenje-imena-Irman Knjiga Imena - Irman/Irmin]
Given name
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Irma Baltuttis (1920-1958), German singer
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Irma Baralija (born 1984), Bosnian politician, teacher, and democracy activist
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Irma Brandeis (1905-1990), American Dante scholar
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Irma Capece Minutolo (1935-2023), Italian opera singer
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Irma Čremošnik, (1916-1990) Slovenian teacher, archaeologist, and philologist
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Irma Flaquer (1938-1980), Guatemalan government critic
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Irma Grese (1923-1945), German Nazi concentration camp guard
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Irma Hannah Gross (1892-1980), American home economist
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Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (1925-2014), Dutch freestyle swimmer
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Irma Huerta (born 1969), Mexican freestyle swimmer
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Irma Khetsuriani (born 1985), Georgian wheelchair fencer
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Irma Kukkasjärvi (1941-2011), Finnish textile artist
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Irma LeVasseur (1877-1964), Canadian physician, first
French-Canadian woman to become a doctor.
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Irma Kurtz (born 1935), American-born UK-based agony aunt
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Irma de Malkhozouny, Italian-born Serbian ballet dancer
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Irma May, Polish social reformer
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Irma McClaurin, American poet and anthropologist
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Irma Miranda (born 1996), Mexican model, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder
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Irma Nioradze (born 1969), Georgian ballerina
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Irma Pany (born 1988), Cameroonian singer/songwriter
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Irma S. Raker (born 1938), American lawyer
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Irma Poma Canchumani (born 1969), Peruvian artist and environmental defender
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Irma Rangel (1931-2003), American politician
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Irma S. Rombauer (1877-1962), cookbook author
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Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros (born 1972), Mexican academic
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Irma Serrano (1933-2023), Mexican actress
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Irma Stern (1894-1966), South African painter
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Irma St. Paule (1926-2007), Ukrainian-born American character actress
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Irma Theoda Jones (1845-1929), American philanthropist
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Irma Thomas (born 1941), American soul singer
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Irma Toivanen (1922–2010), Finnish politician and teacher
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Irma Voigt (1882–1953), American educator
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Irma von Cube (1899-1977), German-American screenwriter
Fictional characters
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Irma (comics), a character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé
*Irma, the title character of ''
Irma la Douce'' (1963), a comedy film by Billy Wilder
*Irma, the title character of the
''My Friend Irma'' television and radio situation comedies and a 1949 film
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Irma Barlow, a character in the
British soap opera
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''
Coronation Street
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''
*Irma Bunt, from
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
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Irma Gobb
''Mr. Bean'' is a British sitcom created by Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and starring Atkinson as Mr. Bean (character), the title character. The sitcom consists of 15 episodes that were co-written by ...
, a character from the British sitcom
Mr. Bean and its
animated series
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.
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Irma Lair, character in ''
W.I.T.C.H.'' series
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Irma Langinstein
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Overview
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* A dark g ...
, in the 1987-1996 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' cartoon and Archie TMNT Adventures comics
*Irma Leopold, a character from Joan Lindsay's novel ''
Picnic at Hanging Rock''
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Irma Pince, librarian in the ''
Harry Potter
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'' series
*Irma Crabbe, character in the ''Harry Potter'' series
*Irma the waitress, character in the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis
*Irma Homais, daughter of fictional apothecary, M. Homais, and a minor character in Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary''
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Irma Vep, character in the
film within a film central to the 1996 French film titled ''Irma Vep''
*'Irma', lieutenant of Colony Mu who is also the Consul I, in ''
Xenoblade Chronicles 3''
* Irma Steiner, a character of the anime and manga ''
Edens Zero'' and the mother of Weisz Steiner
Other uses
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Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Hurricane Maria, Maria two weeks later. At the time, it was considered ...
, 2017
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Operation Irma, 1993
See also
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Irma (disambiguation)
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Erma (disambiguation)
References
External links
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