Ino
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A queen of Boeotia who, after her death and transfiguration, was worshipped as a goddess under the epithet Leucothea
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ino is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- JPJapan≈1 in 112K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 42K
- SISlovenia1 in 78K
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A queen of Boeotia who, after her death and transfiguration, was worshipped as a goddess under the epithet Leucothea.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ino 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 112K | listed | Ino | 73 |
| IT Italy | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 190K | listed | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 663K | — | Ino | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 523K | — | Ino | 3 |
| US United States | 180 | 1 in 1.8M | 216 | Ino | 64 |
| HR Croatia | 101 | 1 in 42K | 127 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 63 | 1 in 162K | 63 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 27 | 1 in 78K | 28 | — | 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: the japanese-surnames-hadamitzky-1998 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ino 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, guardian of Dionysus; Leucothea
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Tongan, poise oneself for attack, hold fists or spear, etc. as if about to attack
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Italian, used to emphasize the smallness of an already mentioned person or thing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Inoke-Yate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, taking notice (of something)
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)
- Ino Roëlb. 1938NLphotographer
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 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 216 | #81,414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 214 | #86,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 191 | #100,867 |
| JP Japan | Japanese, Chinese, Korean Surnames (Hadamitzky, 1998) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ino mean, and where does it come from?
- A queen of Boeotia who, after her death and transfiguration, was worshipped as a goddess under the epithet Leucothea. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ino a male or female name?
- Ino is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Ino?
- In the etymology graph, Dino is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Ino in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ino.
- Where is Ino most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ino is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though Japan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 180 people named Ino in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/inoThe 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, “Ino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.