Inn
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Inn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40Kas In(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 47Kas In
- USUnited States1 in 223Kas In
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 Inn 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 named In, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est., as In
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled In in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Inn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | In | 91 |
| US United States | 1,492as In | 1 in 223K | 2.1K | In | 251 |
| KP North Korea | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 1 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 44 | — | 3 |
| KR South Korea | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 24K | — | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | In | 22 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Inn 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 English, hota-wele
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Danish, Inn (a right tributary of the Danube in Switzerland, Austria and Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mfe, Used to indicate present perfect tense or past tense.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, inside, in (indicating movement into)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gem-pro, in, into (with allative direction)
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)
- Inseonggunb. 1588not in their usual nameJoseon royal (1588 - 1628)
- In Gang-hwanb. 1917KRSouth Korean athletics competitor
- In Myung-jinb. 1946KRSouth Korean politician
- In Jae-keunb. 1953KRSouth Korean activist, politician
- Insoonib. 1957KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- In Yohanb. 1959KRAmerican-South Korean politician (born 1959)
- In Jung-okb. 1968KRSouth Korean screenwriter
- In Song-hob. 1969KRSouth Korean actor
- In Gyo-jinb. 1980KRSouth Korean actor
- In Jun-yeonb. 1991KRSouth Korean footballer
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 263 | #78,395 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 232 | #76,946 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Inn mean, and where does it come from?
- Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Inn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named In in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Inn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,492 people named In in 2010, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Inn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/innThe 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, “Inn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.