İrem
From Hebrew by way of Turkish, the name means "paradise garden". Only about 100 women in Poland carry it, so meeting one stays memorable.
İrem Pronunciation
İrem is pronounced İREM (/i̇rɛm/).
What İrem means
Where İrem comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
İrem comes from Hebrew, and in the tradition that made it Turkish it means "paradise garden." In Surah Al-Fajr (Quran 89:6-8) the word Iram names a place of lofty pillars, remembered in Turkish as İrem bağları, the gardens of Iram. That chapter closes by inviting the righteous into Paradise. The name a Turkish girl carries points at a garden that was said to be lost.
The spelling holds a detail. The dot on the capital İ is Turkish orthography, which keeps the dotted i even when the letter grows tall. There are no diminutives here and no masculine twin. İrem stands as one word.
In Turkey the name has been common among girls born in recent decades. The Hebrew root gave it, the Quranic garden gave it meaning, and Turkish gave it a home. Its sense stays fixed: a paradise garden.
How many people are named İrem
1 in 212678 women in Poland is named İrem. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3316 among female names.
İrem as a middle name
İrem is a first name for 106 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1618th, between Isaura (20) and Katherina (20).
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#1616 Ioanna20
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#1617 Isaura20
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#1618 İrem20
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#1619 Katherina20
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#1620 Kübra20