Irene
Irene is a girl name of Greek origin, meaning Peace.
What Irene means
Peace.
Irene sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Irene comes from
Greek names often reach back to mythology, philosophy, or the early Church. They tend to be transparently meaningful in the original: many are compounds you can still take apart into their two halves.
Irene is recorded as Greek in origin. Browse other Greek names.
How popular is Irene?
You will not find Irene in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Irene
We group Irene under Peace and the long-established classics — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Irene
These share Irene's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Olive — The olive tree; peace.
- Frederick — Peaceful ruler.
- Cora — Maiden.
- Isadora — Gift of Isis.
- Margaret — Pearl.
- Penelope — Weaver; faithful.
- Sophia — Wisdom.
- Agnes — Pure and holy.
- Ariadne — Most holy and pure.
- Catherine — Pure.
- Dorothy — Gift of God.
- Galene — Calm seas.