Irene (given name)
Irene is a female first name. The corresponding male first name is Irenaeus.
Origin and Meaning of the Name
Greek - Latin, the Peaceful ' (Greek Eirene εἰρήνη ' peace ' ); comes from the Greek goddess of peace Eirene ( ngr. Irini ).
Name-day
- January 22 ( Irene of Rome († 288 ) )
- February 21 ( Irene of Rome († 379 ) )
- April 1 and April 3 partly specified ( Irene of Thessalonica († 304) )
- May 5 ( Irini from Greece, Irene of Thessalonica († 310) / Irene of Constantinople Opel )
- August 9 ( Irene of Byzantium )
- 20 October ( Irene of Portugal)
Variants
- Airine, Lithuanian
- Eyrin ( Irish)
- Ina, Inna
- Ini, Iri
- Irish, Ireen
- Irena (Albanian, Greek, Croatian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Sorbian, Czech)
- Irenica
- Irenli
- Irina (Russian Ирина ), Iryna (White Russian Ірына, Ukrainian Ірина ) Irinka, Irischa ( - ka), Irochka, Irutscha, Iratschka, Irtschgi, Irinuschka
- Irinchik
- Irindja
- Irini ( Ειρήνη Greek)
- Irinotschka
- Eirka
- Irtschik
- Irucha
- Irulja
- Irunsik
- Irusik
- Rina ( Ρήνα Greek), Rinaki ( Ρηνάκι Greek), Rinula ( Ρηνούλα Greek)
Famous names winners
- Irene of Rome († 288 ), Saints, widow of the Holy Kastulus
- Irene of Rome († 379 ) ( ~ 349/350- ~ 379 ), Saints, sister of Pope Damasus I.
- Irene of Thessalonica († 304), martyr of Aquileia
- Irene of Thessalonica († 310) ( Irene of Constantinople Opel ), martyr of Thessaloniki
- Irene of Portugal ( † ~ 673), Holy
- Irene of Athens ( 752-803 ), first reigning Byzantine empress ( 797-802 )
- Piroska of Hungary (1088-1135), as a Byzantine Empress Irene, is venerated as a saint
- Irene Palaiologina ( Trebizond ) ( ~ 1315 - after 1341 ), Empress of Trebizond
- Irene Palaiologina ( Byzantine) († ~ 1391 ), wife of Byzantine Emperor
- Irene of Byzantium (* 1177 or 1180/81, † 1208), German Queen, Irene of Swabia
- Irene of Greece (1904-1974), Greek Princess and Duchess of Aosta
- Irene of Orange- Nassau ( b. 1957 ), Princess of the Netherlands
- Irene Cara ( born 1959 ), American singer and actress
- Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale ( 1896-1966 ), British nobleman and member of the House of Lords
- Irene Weller Hoff (born 1954 ), German film producer
- In the system of hurricane names: Hurricane Irene