Ìnce
surname · Latin script
Ìnce is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ches., so called from a Brit, word corresponding to W ynys island, strip of land between two rivers (cf. Innes). 2. see Innocenti Ilmanov see Ellis Inchaustegui see Inchausti llroy see Gilroy.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 957(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 9.4K
- GYGuyana1 in 14K
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
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 957 (inferred from the name graph)
2,389 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ince in US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)Ches., so called from a Brit, word corresponding to W ynys island, strip of land between two rivers (cf. Innes). 2. see Innocenti Ilmanov see Ellis Inchaustegui see Inchausti llroy see Gilroy
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ìnce is found
(measured from records)Ìnce 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 | 2,389 | 1 in 139K | 2.4K | Ince | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | 365 | 1 in 47K | 365 | Ince | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 225 | 1 in 37K | 225 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 197 | 1 in 59K | 288 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 128 | 1 in 46K | 128 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 106 | 1 in 957 | 106 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 53 | 1 in 14K | 53 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 12 | 1 in 9.4K | 12 | — | — |
2,389 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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 Ìnce mean, and where does it come from?
- Ches., so called from a Brit, word corresponding to W ynys island, strip of land between two rivers (cf. Innes). 2. see Innocenti Ilmanov see Ellis Inchaustegui see Inchausti llroy see Gilroy Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ìnce?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Ìnce, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ince. After it come Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ìnce most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ìnce is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 957 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ìnce?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,389 people named Ìnce in 2010, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%ACnceThe 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, “Ìnce”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.