Ina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Ina är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på -ina, t.ex
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.6K
- USUnited States1 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 Ina 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 364 (measured from records)
- 1 in 384 (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yina in CO Colombia.
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)
Ina är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på -ina, t.ex. → Carolina, → Katarina. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 29 augusti.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #291 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Ina | 218 |
| PL Poland | — | 22,557as Inna | 1 in 1.7K | 23K | Ina | 4 |
| US United States | — | 11,921 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Ina | 364 |
| CO Colombia | #425 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 10 | Yina | 85 |
| MD Moldova | #485 | 8,759 | 1 in 384 | 8.8K | Ina | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 6,861as Iina | 1 in 812 | 7.4K | Ina | 16 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,397as Inna | 1 in 554 | 3.4K | — | 23 |
| NO Norway | #444 | 3,327 | 1 in 1.6K | 10K | Ina | 92 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); e-services.md — living population register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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)
Ina 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.
Agni (V); Indra (५); a Deva (P); Jina (N); Nrsimha
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Irish, Perhaps an Irish form of Agnes.
as a nameIrish first names
Fire.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Lao, ko: thé Buddh. n. name of the second of the five wise men in the present Buddhist epoch. 37 u Anta l. n. discontent, anger. 2. v. be discontented, angry. ^
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In lua, to put the cassava root to soak prior to drying, immerse, dip or sink in water.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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)
- Ineb. 670ITnot in their usual nameKing of Wessex
- Kusumoto Ineb. 1827JPnot in their usual namethe first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan
- Ina Claireb. 1893USAmerican stage and film actress (1893-1985)
- Ina Balinb. 1937USAmerican actress (1937-1990)
- Ina Müllerb. 1965DEGerman singer, television presenter and recording artist
- Ina Weisseb. 1968DEGerman actress, screenwriter and film director
- Ine Marie Eriksen Søreideb. 1976NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician (Conservative Party)
- Ina Wroldsenb. 1984NONorwegian singer and songwriter
- Seol In-ahb. 1996KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kenneth Taylorb. 2002NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 2002)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,207 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10K | #412 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 8.8K | #116 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 3.3K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2.5K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2.5K | #218 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #390 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.7K | #390 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #679 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 859 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 80 | #2,207 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 66 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Ina?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Ina a male or female name?
- Ina 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.
- In which country does Ina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Ina in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ina.
- Where is Ina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 384 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Ina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ina är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på -ina, t.ex.
- What are other forms of the name Ina?
- In the etymology graph, Karen, Nancy and Christine are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina and Katharina.
- How common is the name Ina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,921 people named Ina in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Ina compared with other names?
- In Germany, Ina is the 291st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inaThe 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, “Ina” — the 291st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.