Irem
A Slavic name that means "paradise garden". Just 61 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one.
Irem Pronunciation
Irem is pronounced EE-rem (/ˈirɛm/).
What Irem means
Where Irem comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Irem is filed here as a name of Slavic origin, though most who carry it live inside a Turkish story. The short meaning kept on this page is "paradise garden," the Polish "rajski ogród." That garden sense reached the name later, out of Turkish use, where İrem points to Iram, a place named in the eighty-ninth sura of the Quran, Surah al-Fajr. Tradition remembers it as Iram of the Pillars, a lost paradise built by the tribe of Ad.
So two threads meet in five letters. The Slavic root is what this record fixes. The Turkish reading is what most bearers hear, a green paradise, and the name belongs almost always to girls.
On a Polish class register, Irem sits short and unadorned, with no diminutive and no variant beside it. That bareness is part of it. Nothing softens into an Iremka, nothing splits off a boys' form. What a reader keeps is the plain fact printed here: a Slavic name, a Turkish garden, the meaning "rajski ogród."
How many people are named Irem
1 in 369571 women in Poland is named Irem. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4708 among female names.
Irem as a middle name
Irem is a first name for 61 women in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2083rd, between Inna (13) and Joann (13).
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#2081 Imgarda13
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#2082 Inna13
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#2083 Irem13
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#2084 Joann13
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#2085 Johanne13