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Iris

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Greek Mythology, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene, Croatian, Greek

Other Scripts: Ἶρις(Ancient Greek) Ίρις(Greek)

Pronounced: IE-ris(English) EE-ris(German, Dutch) EE-rees(Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Italian) EE-REES(French)

Rating: 75% based on 4 votes

Means "rainbow" in Greek. Iris was the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow, also serving as a messenger to the gods. This name can also be given in reference to the word (which derives from the same Greek source) for the iris flower or the coloured part of the eye.

Mira 2

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Polish

Other Scripts: Мира(Serbian, Macedonian)

Pronounced: MEE-ra(Polish)

Rating: 78% based on 4 votes

Short form of Miroslava and other names beginning with Mir (often the Slavic element mirŭ meaning "peace, world").