Ineke
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ineke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Ine, a Germanic female given name, or ien, the West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon word for "one".
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 17K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 102K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
4,510 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive of Ine, a Germanic female given name, or ien, the West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon word for "one."
Sources 2
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ineke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #178 | 4,510 | 1 in 3.8K | 4.5K | Ineke | 95 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 6 | Ineke | 57 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 266K | 1 | Ineke | 59 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 1 | Ineke | 76 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Ineke | 11 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Ineke | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Ineke | 25 |
4,510 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ineke Brinkmanb. 1934NLDutch television actor and film actor (1934-2018)
- Ineke Crezeeb. 1950NZhealth and legal interpreter and translator and academic
- Ineke Donkervoortb. 1953NLDutch rower
- Ineke Houtmanb. 1956NLDutch film director
- Ineke van Gentb. 1957NLDutch politician, trade unionist and civil servant
- Ineke Smitsb. 1960NLDutch screenwriter and film director (born 1960)
- Ineke van Schoorb. 1995BEBelgian gymnast
- Ineke Boersmab. 1996NLjournalist from the Netherlands
- Ineke ten CateDutch painter
- Ineke De MoortelBEBelgian mathematician and astronomer
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 4.5K | #460 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3.1K | #1,041 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 32 | #8,772 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1995 | 29 | #335 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 20 | #451 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1996 | 18 | #475 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1997 | 17 | #512 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2000 | 16 | #548 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 16 | #534 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2001 | 13 | #641 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2002 | 12 | #650 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 7 | #989 |
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 Ineke mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of Ine, a Germanic female given name, or ien, the West Frisian and Dutch Low Saxon word for "one." Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Ineke a male or female name?
- Ineke 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 Ineke?
- In the etymology graph, Christine, Chris and Christina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ineke have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Ineke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ineke.
- Where is Ineke most common?
- Ineke is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ineke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,510 people named Ineke, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Ineke compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Ineke is the 178th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inekeThe 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, “Ineke” — the 178th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.