Ine
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a female given name, short for Katrine, Karoline, Kristine, etc; a variant of Ina.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
- NONorway1 in 2.3K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,378 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, short for Katrine, Karoline, Kristine, etc; a variant of Ina
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | 2,378 | 1 in 2.3K | 7.5K | Ine | 33 |
| BE Belgium | #914 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 5 | Ine | 71 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,360 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Ine | 58 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Ine | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 303K | — | Ine | 51 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Ine | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 68 | 1 in 150K | 68 | Ine | 5 |
2,378 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Ine 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.
In cdo, a BE «cheek, cheek, drunk with wine! a lullaby. ELAR private, one’s own, as surplus gain. MG pz, Be the neighing of a horse, a crashing noise. wp Re the din of battle
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, date if the gambling-house keeper #2 =E, PA joins in the game it is not clear
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In lua, solitary, by one’s self, only, self. § 8o.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Indo-European languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aau, my sister; used by a male to address his female sibling
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)
- Ineb. 670ITKing of Wessex
- Kusumoto Ineb. 1827JPthe first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan
- Ine Schäfferb. 1923ATathletics competitor (1923–2009)
- Ine Schenkkanb. 1941NLDutch film director and film editor (1941-2001)
- Ine Poppeb. 1960NLDutch artist and journalist (born 1960)
- Ine Jansenb. 1973NONorwegian actress
- Ine Marie Eriksen Søreideb. 1976NONorwegian politician (Conservative Party)
- Ine Marie Wilmannb. 1985NONorwegian actress
- Ine Hoemb. 1985NONorwegian jazz singer and songwriter
- Ine Beyenb. 1987BEBelgian cyclist and cycling pundit
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Ine mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, short for Katrine, Karoline, Kristine, etc; a variant of Ina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ine a male or female name?
- Ine 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 Ine?
- In the etymology graph, Christine, Chris and Christina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ine have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Ine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ine.
- Where is Ine most common?
- Ine is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ine?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,378 people named Ine in 2025, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ine compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Ine is the 914th most common given name of 59,589 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ineThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Ine” — the 914th most common given name in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.