Iñaki
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/iɲaki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iñaki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Coined by Sabino Arana, from Latin Ignatius.
- ESSpain1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 24K
- CLChile≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
15,771 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Inaki in US United States.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Coined by Sabino Arana, from Latin Ignatius.
Sources 2
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iñaki 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.
15,771 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Iñaki is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Basque form of IGNATIUS .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Iñaki Alkizab. 1933ESSpanish footballer (1933–2023)
- Iñaki Azkunab. 1943ESSpanish politician (1943-2014)
- Iñaki Sáezb. 1943ESSpanish football player/manager
- Iñaki Urdangarinb. 1968ESSpanish handball player
- Isaki Lacuestab. 1975ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director
- Iñaki Fontb. 1979ESSpanish actor
- Iñaki Rikarteb. 1981ESSpanish actor
- Iñaki Williamsb. 1994ESGhanaian association football player (born 1994)
- Iñaki Peñab. 1999ESSpanish association football player
- Iñaki Godoyb. 2003MXMexican actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 16K | #182 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16K | #415 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2001 | 187 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2001 | 187 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2003 | 184 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2003 | 183 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2004 | 182 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2004 | 182 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2002 | 178 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2002 | 178 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2000 | 166 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 161 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iñaki mean, and where does it come from?
- Coined by Sabino Arana, from Latin Ignatius. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Iñaki?
- A machine transcription gives /iɲaki/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Iñaki a male or female name?
- Iñaki 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.
- What are other forms of the name Iñaki?
- In the etymology graph, Ignacio, Ignatius and Nacho are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Iñaki have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Iñaki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iñaki.
- Where is Iñaki most common?
- Iñaki is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Iñaki?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,771 people named Iñaki, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Iñaki compared with other names?
- In Spain, Iñaki is the 366th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iñaki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/i%C3%B1akiThe 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, “Iñaki” — the 366th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.