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A Top 200 choice in the US from the late 1880s to the early 1930s, Irma has nevertheless fallen out of favor with modern parents, and doesn't look set for the sort of comeback that some of her vintage sisters have enjoyed in recent years. The devastating hurricane which hit the Caribbean Islands and the south-east coast of the US in 2017 has no doubt dealt its chances of revival a further blow.
 
Derived from the Germanic element irmin, it was originally used as a short form for other names containing that element, such as Irmhild. It was adopted by the English speaking world in the 19th century, and was used alongside spelling variant, Erma, perhaps due to its similarity to the timeless classic, Emma, which derives from the same root.
 
Once popular in France and Latvia, it is now out of the charts there too. 
 
Does that meaning Irma is lost forever? Not at all. In the US at least, it was given to around 70 babies in a recent year, having recovered from its dip after the hurricane. Add the baby Ermas to this and around 100 babies received the name.

Irma

A rare, unisex Biblical name, with a similar feel to choices like Omar, Haziel, Gideon, and Ofir, but also to Montgomery and Grover. In the Bible, Gomer was both a son of Japheth (and therefore grandson of Noah), and the wife of the prophet Hosea. 
 Once associated mainly with the good natured but very naïve Gomer Pyle, a character from The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer is now linked to the medical abbreviation "Get Out of My Emergency Room", referring to a patient who doesn't appear to be in need of medical care.
 More generally and more derogatively, it might also be used to describe a difficult patient who is often readmitted, or a foolish and incompetent work colleague. And then, there's gomerization, an informal farming term for a type of animal neutering. Not the associations you'd want for a baby, for multiple reasons.

Gomer

A diminutive of Irma, used in Germany, Iceland, and Scandinavia.

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The names

Irma

Gomer

Irmelin