Inci
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pearl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/indʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Inci is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 5.8K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 4.7K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pearl
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inci 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #490 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 4K | Inci | 89 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #493 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 3.9K | Inci | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 63K | listed | — | 1 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Inci | 5 |
| CY Cyprus | #341 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Inci | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 56 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 202 | 1 in 1.6M | 200 | Inci | 86 |
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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Inci 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 Turkish, İstiridye gibi kimi kavkılı deniz hayvanlarının içinde oluşan değerli, küçük, sert, sedef renginde süs tanesi.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Perla
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Indonesian, inch, a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of incus:
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- İnci Birolb. 1933TRTurkish dancer and actor (1933–2022)
- İnci Çayırlıb. 1935TRTurkish singer and choir director (1935–2021)
- İnci Enginünb. 1940TRTurkish academic (born 1940)
- İnci Aralb. 1944TRTurkish writer (born 1944)
- İnci Asenab. 1948TRTurkish poet (born 1948)
- İnci Evinerb. 1956TRTurkish artist (born 1956)
- İnci Dirimb. 1965TRTurkish translator and writer (born 1965)
- İnci Y.b. 1970TRTurkish writer (born 1970)
- İnci Türkayb. 1976TRTurkish actor (born 1972)
- İnci Pars Özgürgünb. 1980CYTurkish Cypriot actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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
- What does the name Inci mean, and where does it come from?
- pearl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Inci?
- A machine transcription gives /indʒi/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Inci a male or female name?
- Inci 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 are other forms of the name Inci?
- In the etymology graph, Інжу is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Inci have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Inci in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled inci.
- How common is the name Inci?
- In the United States, the national register counted 202 people named Inci in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Inci compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Inci is the 490th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Inci?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inciThe 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, “Inci” — the 490th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.