Îce
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Îce is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-.
- SESweden1 in 255K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
180 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
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
(measured from records)- Middle Englishis(measured from records)
- Old Englishīs“ice”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*īs(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*īsą(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁eyH-(measured from records)
From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. Cognates See also West Frisian iis, Dutch ijs, German Low German Ies, German Eis, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish is; also Lithuanian ýnis (“glazed frost”), Russian и́ней (ínej, “hoarfrost”), Ossetian их (ix), ех (ex, “ice”), Persian یخ (yax), Northern Kurdish qeş.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Îce 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 180 | 1 in 1.8M | 4K | — | 32 |
| SE Sweden | 40 | 1 in 255K | 40 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
180 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Îce mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English is, from Old English īs (“ice”), from Proto-West Germanic *īs, from Proto-Germanic *īsą from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Is Îce a male or female name?
- Îce 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.
- In which country does Îce have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 180 people named Îce, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Îce most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Îce is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 255 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Îce?
- In the United States, the national register counted 180 people named Îce in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AEceThe 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, “Îce”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.