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Iracema

Girls' name

Bee's exit

Iracema has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Iracema, 2004

1 in 764,000

Iracema over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iracema: meaning, origin, and history

Bee's exit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iracema means

Iracema means “bee's exit”, associated with irasema.

Origin, language, and formation

Iracema is used in Portuguese.

Iracema comes through Nheengatu irasema.

Iracema is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Iracema is pronounced /i.ɾaˈsẽ.mɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Iracema between 1971 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1982; its best national rank was #6,528 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Iracema?

Iracema had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iracema sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iracema. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iracemas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iracema was born before 1982 — so the typical Iracema is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
57.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
61
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Iracema rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (10)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,528
1982

Spellings of Iracema

Iracema is not the most common spelling — Irasema is, with 94.0% against Iracema's 6.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Iracema is used

Across 1910–2025, Iracema was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,886,246 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Iracema has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iracema by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,528
1982
Peak year
1982
10 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iracema

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Iracema

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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