Irada
The name means "will" or "desire". Just 61 women in Poland carry it and no girls have been given it in years, so most Poles have never met one.
Irada Pronunciation
Irada is pronounced ee-RAH-dah (/iˈrada/).
What Irada means
Where Irada comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Irada begins in Arabic. The source word is irāda, meaning will, or the act of desiring. English glosses the name as "will, desire," and Polish as pragnienie, wola. From Arabic the word moved into Turkic languages, and in Azerbaijani it became the woman's name İradə.
The meaning has a plainness to it. Many names describe a quality such as beauty or grace. Irada names a faculty instead, the capacity to want something and to hold to it. A girl on a Polish class register with this name sits among the Zuzannas and Amelias with a word that points to intention rather than looks.
That is uncommon among given names. Most name a trait. Irada names an act of the will. The root beneath it stays the Arabic irāda, will and desire.
How many people are named Irada
1 in 369571 women in Poland is named Irada. 61 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4707 among female names.