Ionela
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries
Ionela is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ionel + -a, from Ion.
- RORomania1 in 144(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 32K
- DKDenmark1 in 49K
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 Ionela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 144 (inferred from the name graph)
148,141 people, 2023
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)From Ionel + -a, from Ion.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ionela 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.
148,141 people counted by DEPABD — name-day population snapshot, 2023. 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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)- Ionela Prodanb. 1947ROInterpreter of Romanian folk music (1947-2018)
- Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilacheb. 1960CFscientist and badminton executive
- Ionela Bruchental-Popb. 1973politician
- Ionela Târleab. 1976RORomanian hurdler and sprinter
- Ionela Loaieșb. 1979RORomanian gymnast
- Iulia-Ionela Ionicăb. 1980RORomanian chess player
- Ionela Stancab. 1981RORomanian handball player
- Minellib. 1988ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer-songwriter
- Ionela-Livia Cozmiucb. 1995RORomanian rower
- Ionela ManolescoCAQuebec poet and essayist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Ionela a male or female name?
- Ionela is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Romania (DEPABD, 2023), Spain (INE), Norway (SSB) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- What does the name Ionela mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ionel + -a, from Ion. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Ionela?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ioana.
- In which country does Ionela have the most bearers?
- In Romania, the national register counted about 148 thousand people named Ionela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ionela.
- Where is Ionela most common?
- Ionela is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 144 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ionela?
- In Romania, the national register counted 148,141 people named Ionela in 2023, about 1 in 144 residents.
- How common is Ionela compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ionela is the 563rd most common given name of 34,167 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/ionelaThe 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, “Ionela” — the 563rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.