Ionia

loc · Latin script

Meaning: A former settlement in Anatolia, on the coast of the Aegean Sea; An Ancient Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor inhabited by the Ionians, one of the four main Hellenic tribes

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ionia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 630Kas Jonia(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Ionie
  • ITItaly≈1 in 1.5M

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 Ionia 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.

Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 named Jonia, est.

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ionie in GB United Kingdom, JM Jamaica, MA Morocco and 3 more and Jonia in BR Brazil, TZ Tanzania.

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)

A former settlement in Anatolia, on the coast of the Aegean Sea; An Ancient Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor inhabited by the Ionians, one of the four main Hellenic tribes.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ionia 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.

Where Ionia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 41K—Jonia4
BR Brazil—336as Jonia1 in 630K407Jonia36
US United States—314as Ionie1 in 1.1M308Ionia126
MA Morocco—≈160 est.≈1 in 220K—Ionie1
GB United Kingdom—≈75 est.≈1 in 879K—Ionie45
JM Jamaica—≈75 est.≈1 in 38K—Ionie8
IT Italy—≈43 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Ionie3
LS Lesotho#513≈7 est.≈1 in 286K—Ionie1
GY Guyana—5as Ionie1 in 150K5Ionie2
CR Costa Rica—11 in 5.1M1—2

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ionia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Ionie

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Iônia

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Иония, Ионий, Іонія, Ioniia, Ионии

  • Greek name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Ιωνια, Ιωνία

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ionia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, ancient region, Asia Minor; county,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Latin, Ionia (a region of Asia Minor, in modern Turkey)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Ionia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020115#50,640
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202240—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—40#77,494
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192318—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)193413—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192612—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191811—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191611—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)193310—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)192410—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)191710—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19329—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ionia mean, and where does it come from?
A former settlement in Anatolia, on the coast of the Aegean Sea; An Ancient Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor inhabited by the Ionians, one of the four main Hellenic tribes. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ionia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Jonia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Ionia?
In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Ionia, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
How common is Ionia compared with other names?
In Lesotho, Ionia is the 513th most common given name of 1,237 given names recorded there.

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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, “Ionia” — the 513th most common given name in Lesotho. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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