Ionut
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ionut/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ionut is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- RORomania1 in 59(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.9K
- ESSpain1 in 24K
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.
- Romania (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59 (inferred from the name graph)
361,680 people, 2023
Highest-authority source
Romania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ionut 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 | #17 | 361,680 | 1 in 59 | 362K | Ionut | 163 |
| IT Italy | #754 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Ionut | 88 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Ionut | 5 |
| ES Spain | #924 | 2,052 | 1 in 24K | 2.2K | Ionut | 102 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1 | Ionut | 109 |
| MD Moldova | — | 1,398 | 1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | — | 15 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 2 | Ionut | 38 |
| IS Iceland | — | 44 | 1 in 8K | 44 | — | — |
361,680 people counted by DEPABD — name-day population snapshot, 2023, counting the spelling ionuț. 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; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; e-services.md — living population register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
- Ionuț Badeab. 1975RORomanian footballer
- Ionuț Mazilub. 1982RORomanian footballer
- Cristian Săpunarub. 1984ROnot in their usual nameRomanian association football player
- Ionuț Gheorgheb. 1984ROboxer
- Ionuț Neagub. 1989RORomanian footballer
- Ionuț Silaghi de Oașb. 1990RORomanian singer-songwriter, producer, author, and current head of the Szilágyi-Oaș noble family (1990–)
- Andrei Ursub. 1993ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer and songwriter
- Ionuț Nedelcearub. 1996RORomanian association football player
- Ionuț Radub. 1997RORomanian association football player (born 1997)
- Dragoș Nedelcub. 1997ROnot in their usual nameRomanian footballer
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #726 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #1,700 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 44 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 4 | #1,848 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #7,390 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 1 | #13,738 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2022 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2018 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Ionut?
- A machine transcription gives /ionut/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Ionut a male or female name?
- Ionut 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.
- In which country does Ionut have the most bearers?
- In Romania, the national register counted about 362 thousand people named Ionut, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ionut.
- Where is Ionut most common?
- Ionut is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ionut?
- In Romania, the national register counted 361,680 people named Ionut in 2023, about 1 in 59 residents.
- How common is Ionut compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ionut is the 17th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ionut?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ionutThe 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, “Ionut” — the 17th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.