Ilze
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ilze is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Bebrenes pagastā.
- LVLatvia1 in 163(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 14K
- BRBrazil1 in 179K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163 (inferred from the name graph)
11,535 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
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)
apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Bebrenes pagastā
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilze 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #292 | 11,535 | 1 in 163 | 12K | Ilze | 43 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ilze | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,180 | 1 in 179K | 1.4K | Ilze | 53 |
| US United States | — | 376 | 1 in 885K | 372 | Ilze | 108 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 219K | listed | Ilze | 49 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 346 | Ilze | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Ilze | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 17 | Ilze | 3 |
11,535 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Ilze is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Papirosa čaulīte
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Ilze Graubiņab. 1941LVLatvian musician (1941–2001)
- Ilze Rubeneb. 1958LVLatvian chess player (1958-2002)
- Ilze Liepab. 1963RURussian ballet dancer and actress
- Ilze Viņķeleb. 1971LVLatvian politician
- Ilze Juhansoneb. 1971LVLatvian diplomat and civil servant (born 1971)
- Ilze Indriksoneb. 1974LVLatvian politician
- Ilze Jaunalksneb. 1976LVLatvian journalist (born 1976)
- Ilze Bērziņab. 1984LVchess player
- Ilze Ķuzule-Skrastiņab. 1985LVLatvian actress
- Ilze Hattinghb. 1996ZASouth African tennis player
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 12K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 12K | #28 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.4K | #7,509 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.4K | #3,658 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,397 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 870 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 763 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 509 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Is Ilze a male or female name?
- Ilze is a female 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 does the name Ilze mean?
- Recorded meaning: apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Bebrenes pagastā
- What are other forms of the name Ilze?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabete is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ilze have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Ilze, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilze.
- Where is Ilze most common?
- Ilze is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ilze?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 11,535 people named Ilze, about 1 in 163 residents.
- How common is Ilze compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Ilze is the 292nd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ilze?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilzeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ilze” — the 292nd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.