Best Nicknames

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning: “watchful”

Variations, Nicknames and Sound Alikes:
Ara, Ari, Ary, Eri, Ike, Iyar, Isa

Ira TV and Movie Quotes:
“I didn’t know there were actually people named Ira.”
Will & Grace: Will Works Out (1999)
” Of course, we’re talking to Ira Gershwin about a modern musical
version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ‘Quasimodo Jones.'”
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Famous people named Ira or its variations

1. Ira Kaplan (b. 1957), American singer, musician
2. Ira Berkow (b. 1940), American Pulitzer Prize winning
sports reporter
3. Ira Glass (b. 1959), American radio host, producer
(“This American Life”)
 

 
Ira Middle Names
Ira Aaron
Ira Benjamin
Ira Elliot
Ira Samuel
Ira Theodore