Ira

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I really like this name for a boy. What are people’s thoughts?
Pronounced Eye-ra

Don’t think I’ve come across it before & tbh I assumed it was a girls name

IRA? Hope you don't have any Irish relatives!

I like it. It can be either boy or girl. I think it's a Hebrew name?

As in Hebrew origin.

it’s a sweet name

All I think of on seeing that name is IRA so it would be a no from me.

Seen it a few times on US tv programmes. It's a Jewish name isn't it?

Sorry OP but it looks very like IRA. You don't want your child to go through life named after a terrorist organisation.

I’m Irish so it will always look like IRA to me.

I love it.

I read it as in the terrorist group IRA

Ira as in Gershwin. I like it.

Looks like IRA to me too.

It's hideous.

I love it as a name. It's Hebrew and means watchful. I know it as a name, have came across a few in the US.

It's a very Hebrew name. But people may think it's a girl's name - it's the A ending. And then there is the IRA...

Didn't Ira Levin write Rosemary's Baby? Presumably Jewish, but I have always thought it sounds more feminine than masculine

As a Jewish name it’s fine, but in UK it’s too much like IRA.

I'm surprised it's unfamiliar to many - quite popular in American. Ira Glass is the guy behind the podcast Serial, S-town, This American Life etc. I mean Serial was massive so I'd have thought people knew the name given it was at the start of every episode!

It sounds lovely, but I looked and read IRA before I realised it was in Names.

As a Jewish name it’s fine, but in UK it’s too much like IRA.
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Not to my personal tastes (I'm also Irish!) but there are at least two young Ira's in my small neighbourhood. I think it's refreshing and a bit different.

IRA. Its awful

I quite like it, and associate it with (usually older) characters in American TV shows.

The obvious downsides have already been mentioned: people might think it's a girl's name, and in Britain it's too similar to IRA.

Sounds like Eira which is a Welsh girl’s name