Ïa

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ïa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • 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 Ïa 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)

12,806 named ია

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
129 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÏaLatin(measured from records)
იაGeorgian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ia in US United States, ES Spain and 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)

recorded in Portuguese

forma popular e coloquial; redução de Ianni em sobrenomes compostos

Sources 4

  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Nordic Names
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ïa 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.

Where Ïa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GE Georgia12,806as ია1 in 31213Kია65
SE Sweden7471 in 14K747—38
US United States7171 in 464K639Ia129
ES Spain2251 in 222K225Ia37
FI Finland1971 in 28K225—7
NO Norway≈26 est.≈1 in 212K62—4
MD Moldova231 in 146K23—1

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ïa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Ia, Ià, Îa, Ïã, Îã

  • a separate given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Greece, Russia, Brazil

    Also written Ia, Iâ, Ía, Iå, Īâ

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Í́a, I︠A︡, ́ía, Iå, Iä

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ïa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kha, accusative and dative marker, to, for, concerning, of

    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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ïa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Ïa 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 Ïa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ïa 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 Ïa?
In Sweden, the national register counted 747 people named Ïa, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AFa

The 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, “Ïa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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