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Irma

American  
[ur-muh] / ˈɜr mə /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Erma.


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Irma Holloway, head of the Chicago-based Black Contractors Owners & Executives organisation, of which Pink Hats is a member, says Traci and her team are helping reshape the construction field.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

But it was disappointment for Norwich's Emma Dolan who suffered a third-round knockout defeat against IBF super-flyweight champion Irma Garcia.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

So Irma banded together with other recipients of farming plots to demand an end to the looting and assert the rights given to them by Chávez’s laws.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

When Nicolás Maduro first assumed power in 2013, Irma was working as a campesina—a small-scale rural farmer—in Venezuela.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

She and her mother had done the same thing after Irma.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz