Ís
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ís is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 340Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.7M
- BRBrazil1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 277K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Is in PT Portugal, ES Spain and Îs in DZ Algeria.
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)即 丝 干 氏 , 见 《中 文大 字典 》(81) 和 《中 华 大 FHL) (444) 。 万 [给 ~ 纪 千 héqian
Cited for this meaning 4
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ís 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.
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Ís is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ine-pro, this, he (used as the 3rd person pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, accusative/genitive singular of ísur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, accusative singular of íss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, under, below, beneath
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ís a male or female name?
- Ís 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Ís?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 people named Ís in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled îs. After it come Chile, Brazil and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ís?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30 people named Ís in 2022, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ís?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%ADsThe 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, “Ís”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.