Ira for a boy?

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Just wondering what people think?

no from me, sorry

I like it!

I like it and I know a 12yr old IRA :)

It's always going to be Gershwin, so it probably depends if you like the songs!?

Oh offs bloody autocorrect! Ira!!

But you will get lots if people say about the IRA link on here.

It's the baddie gangster in Romancing the Stone isn't it? shows age if so

I hear it always with a New Yoik accent, anyway. I don't particularly like it.

I love it. Gorgeous.
I wish I could use it myself, but 11 year old dd has a very similar sounding girls name.

Love it and wanted it for DS but DH he say no....

I think it's awful. Like some old homesteader from a wild west novel.

It was in my list
Dh ruled it out because of the IRA

Not if you live in Ireland!

Are you Jewish? If so, then go for it, but if not bear in mind that it does sound VERY Jewish

Love it

1930s america. love it.

(don't forget the less Irish republican sounding Irving... my dad's best friend was an Irving)

I like Ira. I also like Asa and it reminds me a bit of that name- no idea why!

I like Ira. I knew someone called Ira (not British) and he said he called himself by his middle name at school to avoid IRA but I don't know whether he did that pre-emptively or not.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes....

Apart from that I've never heard of it but it's nice. The IRA connection would make it a no for me though.

I have a female friend called Ira.

I have never heard of this name but quite like it. Prefer Idris though (after the gorgeous Idris Elba- would not be brave enough to use though!)

Straight away all I see is IRA, I am from NI though!

Ughfootballboots, another Bob Dylan fan here.

I love it and didn't even think of the IRA.

those three letters have an horrific connotation to me and many others...

I thought of Romancing The Stone too, Danny DeVito shouting it from the top of a castle.

I also then thought IRA.