Ima

Ima is a short Germanic feminine name, likely originating as a contracted or hypocoristic form of longer names beginning with the element ermen or heim, meaning something akin to whole or entire and home or world respectively. It was used in medieval Germanic-speaking regions and has cognates in similar short forms such as Irma and Imma. In the English-speaking world the name gained a degree of attention, sometimes humorously, through the phrase-like combination Ima Hogg, borne by a prominent Texas philanthropist of the early twentieth century. Related forms include Imma and the expanded Irmina.