Ίων
given name · Greek script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ίων is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Greek script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Ίων is also written Ion in Latin.
- GRGreece≈1 in 120Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 34as Ion
- RORomania1 in 63as Ion
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ίων itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Romania (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
336,421 named Ion, 2023
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ίων in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ion in RO Romania, ES Spain, US United States and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ίων 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | 336,421as Ion | 1 in 63 | 336K | Ion | 12 |
| MD Moldova | 100,110as Ion | 1 in 34 | 100K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 7,908as Ion | 1 in 6.3K | 8K | Ion | 7 |
| PL Poland | 3,186as Ion | 1 in 12K | 3.2K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,714as Ion | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Ion | 29 |
| IS Iceland | 132as Ion | 1 in 2.7K | 132 | — | — |
| GR Greece | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Ion | 68 |
336,421 people counted by DEPABD — name-day population snapshot, 2023. 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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ion of Chiosb. 490GR5th-century BC Greek poet, dramatist and philosopher
- Ion of SamosGRancient Greek poet
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ίων a male or female name?
- Ίων is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Ίων?
- In Romania, the national register counted about 336 thousand people named Ion, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Moldova, Spain, Poland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ίων?
- In Romania, the national register counted 336,421 people named Ion in 2023, about 1 in 63 residents.
What do you want to know about Ίων?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%CE%AF%CF%89%CE%BDThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ίων”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.