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The name Ira is of Hebrew origin, and means watchful. The table below indicates the number of times the name Ira has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Ira**
Use of the Name Ira for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
50,020	13,244	2,518	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Ira has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Ira last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1992, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Ira**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	66	249	426	16
1881	57	286	648	8
1882	71	244	708	8
1883	67	239	455	18
1884	66	284	511	17
1885	75	235	590	14
1886	85	198	469	22
1887	77	215	480	22
1888	84	222	528	23
1889	85	207	521	24
1890	82	209	654	17
1891	91	179	551	23
1892	88	231	531	27
1893	98	181	556	26
1894	93	206	800	15
1895	95	207	649	23
1896	100	190	541	31
1897	99	180	493	35
1898	98	195	628	27
1899	120	138	542	31
1900	107	218	480	50
1901	118	142	583	29
1902	124	156	530	37
1903	119	167	562	34
1904	141	143	660	28
1905	128	169	520	43
1906	137	151	580	37
1907	124	195	717	28
1908	130	196	640	36
1909	147	173	653	37
1910	137	233	639	44
1911	140	237	620	48
1912	152	394	706	51
1913	153	478	655	63
1914	152	604	743	60
1915	146	813	764	75
1916	149	821	793	74
1917	151	860	758	84
1918	163	862	843	73
1919	165	816	789	80
1920	170	828	813	80
1921	166	880	776	89
1922	177	792	779	87
1923	172	825	732	99
1924	173	839	739	100
1925	183	782	765	94
1926	180	789	832	78
1927	181	794	734	94
1928	196	718	706	100
1929	201	657	817	75
1930	199	699	789	80
1931	207	615	872	62
1932	194	661	825	69
1933	201	584	718	83
1934	213	568	913	57
1935	216	548	826	69
1936	230	498	830	66
1937	208	574	883	62
1938	219	549	946	57
1939	226	528	980	53
1940	206	625	865	68
1941	220	596
1942	205	759
1943	231	617	992	64
1944	225	610	902	72
1945	212	660	909	69
1946	217	778
1947	216	881	972	84
1948	225	822
1949	230	783
1950	232	792
1951	235	808
1952	245	761
1953	256	726
1954	264	707
1955	274	678
1956	279	699
1957	298	642
1958	307	603
1959	319	593
1960	318	601
1961	334	546
1962	353	500
1963	390	415
1964	387	420
1965	383	410
1966	378	399
1967	395	371
1968	419	335
1969	389	408
1970	434	352
1971	447	335
1972	422	349
1973	440	316
1974	478	276
1975	440	322
1976	490	263
1977	458	306
1978	455	307
1979	498	280
1980	504	282
1981	507	275
1982	534	255
1983	547	233
1984	582	211
1985	691	162
1986	642	195
1987	688	173
1988	778	148
1989	789	157
1990	835	151
1991	862	148
1992	949	128
Totals:		50,020		3,349

During the last 125 years, parents have used Ira as a boy's name about 93% of the time and less frequently (about 6% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Ira appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 113 times during the last 125 years.

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