Nekane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Basque form of Dolores; from neké, 'pain, sorrow, fatigue'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nekane/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nekane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 16K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 926K
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3M
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
3,159 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Basque form of Dolores; from neké, 'pain, sorrow, fatigue'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nekane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #931 | 3,159 | 1 in 16K | 3.2K | Nekane | 113 |
| US United States | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Nekane | 36 |
| FR France | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Nekane | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | — | Nekane | 9 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Nekane | 8 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 1 | Nekane | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 926K | 15 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Nekane | 7 |
3,159 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Nekane is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., baskische Form des spanischen Vornamens
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Basque, a female given name, equivalent to Spanish Dolores
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Basque equivalent of DOLORES .
as a word
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)
- Nekane Juradob. 1958ESSpanish economist
- Nekane Erauskinb. 1962ESpolitician
- Nekane Murgab. 1963ESuniversity teacher, Spain
- Nekane Intxaurtzab. 1965ESBasque politician and book editor
- Nekane Balluerkab. 1966ESPresident of the University of the Basque Country (2017-2021)
- Nekane Altzelai Uliondob. 1966ESSpanish politician
- Nekane Arratibel Insaustib. 1968ESpsychologist and sociolinguist
- Nekane Perezb. 1968ESSpanish politician
- Nekane Díezb. 1991ESfootballer
- Nekane Merinoresearcher
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.2K | #1,262 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.1K | #642 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #34,398 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #33,615 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2005 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2001 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1999 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Nekane mean, and where does it come from?
- Basque form of Dolores; from neké, 'pain, sorrow, fatigue'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Nekane?
- A machine transcription gives /nekane/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Nekane a male or female name?
- Nekane is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nekane have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Nekane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nekane.
- Where is Nekane most common?
- Nekane is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nekane?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,159 people named Nekane, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Nekane compared with other names?
- In Spain, Nekane is the 931st most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nekane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nekaneThe 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, “Nekane” — the 931st most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.