Iryda
From the Greek for "rainbow". Just 15 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given the name in any year since 2000: meeting one would be a genuine surprise.
Iryda Pronunciation
Iryda is pronounced ee-RIH-dah (/iˈrɨda/).
What Iryda means
Where Iryda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Iryda comes from Greek, from iris, the word for rainbow. In Greek myth, Iris was the goddess who ran the gods' errands along the rainbow that bridged sky and ground. The same root spread into ordinary speech. It named the flower with the many-colored petals and the colored ring around the pupil of the eye. Chemists later took it for iridium, an element named in 1803 for the many colors of its salts.
Polish kept the sense whole when it shaped Iryda. The meaning is rainbow.
A girl called Iryda stands out on a school class register. Teachers pause on the second syllable before they read it right. The name gives her something plain to explain: it means tęcza, rainbow, and it began with a Greek goddess who walked one.
When Iryda celebrates name day
Iryda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Iryda
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Iryda. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12079 among female names.
Iryda as a middle name
Iryda is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 75/25 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3643rd, between Irka (5) and Isha (5).
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#3641 Iolanda5
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#3642 Irka5
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#3643 Iryda5
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#3644 Isha5
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#3645 Isis5