Ìnnocent

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ìnnocent is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English innocent, from Old French inocent, borrowed from Latin innocens (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). Ìnnocent is also written อนโนเซนท in Thai.

  • TZTanzania≈1 in 880(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 1.1K
  • MWMalawi≈1 in 1.3Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈210,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
249 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 882 (inferred from the name graph)

Tanzania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Ìnnocent in other scripts: Thai

(measured from records)
ÌnnocentLatin(measured from records)
อนโนเซนทÌnnocent in Thai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Innocent in NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa, US United States and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Ìnnocent: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ìnnocent
  1. Middle Englishinnocent(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchinocent(measured from records)
  3. Latininnocens“harmless“harmless, inoffensive”(measured from records)
  4. Latin rootin-“not”(measured from records)

From Middle English innocent, from Old French inocent, borrowed from Latin innocens (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). Displaced native Old English unsċyldiġ.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ìnnocent counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ìnnocent is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#190≈210,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Innocent111
TZ Tanzania#621≈78,000 est.≈1 in 8822Innocent38
ZA South Africa#389≈25,000 est.≈1 in 2.6KlistedInnocent58
MW Malawi#137≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Innocent17
PK Pakistan—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 23K—Innocent13
ZM Zambia#469≈6,500 est.≈1 in 3.3K22Innocent17
US United States—1,2391 in 268K2KInnocent249

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ìnnocent under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ìnnocent mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English innocent, from Old French inocent, borrowed from Latin innocens (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
Is Ìnnocent a male or female name?
Ìnnocent is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Ìnnocent?
Mondonomo estimates about 208 thousand people named Ìnnocent in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled innocent. After it come Tanzania, South Africa, Malawi and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Ìnnocent?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,239 people named Ìnnocent in 2020, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
How common is Ìnnocent compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Ìnnocent is the 190th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ìnnocent” — the 190th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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