Ia
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 464K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 14K
- FIFinland1 in 28K
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 Ia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
12,806 named ია
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ია in GE Georgia.
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)
Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ia 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.
12,806 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Ia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma popular e coloquial; redução de Ianni em sobrenomes compostos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Dardo
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Basque, prt. ‘already’; TS ‘almost’; intj. ‘enough!’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In cdo, “has ruined the empire” wasted a patrimony
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to walk, fast, to hurry on FB decorum, rank, order, 10 years. RFF the order of the day, the program. FR Fp the program as written or print
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Ija Majakb. 1922RUnot in their usual nameRussian historian
- Iya Arepinab. 1930RUnot in their usual nameSoviet actress (1930-2003)
- Ija Savvinab. 1936RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1936-2011)
- Ia Ninidzeb. 1960GEGeorgian actor
- Ia Villatuyab. 1974USAmerican actress
- Ia Sukhitashvilib. 1980GEGeorgian actress
- Iya Kivab. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian poet, translator, journalist, critic
- Iya Gavrilovab. 1987RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey player
- Iya LabunkaUSnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer and production manager
- Ia KatsiaGEGeorgian economist
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 747 | #2,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 639 | #15,903 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 415 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 410 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 401 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 394 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 388 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 387 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 383 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 376 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 369 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 355 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Ia mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ia have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named ია, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ia?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 747 people named Ia, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iaThe 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, “Ia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.