Ingabire
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Gift
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛ̃ɡabiʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ingabire is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Rwanda than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname.
- RWRwanda≈1 in 473(inferred from the name graph)
- BIBurundi≈1 in 559
- UGUganda≈1 in 19K
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.
- Rwanda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 473 (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Rwanda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gift.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ingabire 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RW Rwanda | #17 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 473 | listed | Ingabire | 17 |
| BI Burundi | #202 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 559 | 5 | Ingabire | 8 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | — | 4 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Ingabire | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 140 | 1 in 84K | 286 | Ingabire | 23 |
| NO Norway | — | 70 | 1 in 78K | 70 | — | 1 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025. 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)
- Marie Immaculée Ingabireb. 1962RWRwandan human rights activist (died 2025)
- Paula Ingabireb. 1983RWRwandan politician
- Sabrine Ingabireb. 1995BEBelgian journalist
- Diane Ingabireb. 2001RWRwandan cyclist
- Assumpta IngabireRWRwandan politician
- Ingabire Egidie BibioRWRwandan journalist
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 286 | #6,054 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 140 | #11,655 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #20,792 |
| BI Burundi | CENI — Liste nominative definitive des candidats deputes 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #15 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ingabire mean, and where does it come from?
- Gift. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Ingabire?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛ̃ɡabiʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Ingabire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Ingabire in Rwanda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ingabire.
- How common is the name Ingabire?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 140 people named Ingabire in 2008, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Ingabire compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Ingabire is the 17th most common surname of 2,846 surnames 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/ingabireThe 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, “Ingabire” — the 17th most common surname in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.