Ondina
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ondina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ondina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 44th most common given name.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 19K
- BRBrazil1 in 32K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
6,706 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ondina is read(measured from records)
Ondina is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish45%
Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
undine, water sprite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese40%
undine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ondina in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ondina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 6,706 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Ondina | 63 |
| HN Honduras | #44 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Ondina | 21 |
| US United States | — | 718 | 1 in 463K | 714 | Ondina | 124 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Ondina | 8 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Ondina | 34 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #513 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Ondina | 11 |
| HR Croatia | — | 180 | 1 in 23K | 180 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 153 | 1 in 22K | 153 | — | 10 |
6,706 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the portuguese-names-barbosa-1990 register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Ondina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, undine, mermaid
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)
- Ondina Valéria Pimentelb. 1916BRBrazilian Mãe-de-santo
- Ondina Otta Klasincb. 1924SISlovene opera singer
- Dinab. 1956PTnot in their usual namePortuguese singer (1956-2019)
- Ondina Piresb. 1961PTperformance artist, writer, music and one of the pioneers of Portuguese punk
- Ondina Clais Castilhob. 1970BRBrazilian actress
- Ondina Maldonadob. 1987ESsinger, actress
- Ondina Quadrib. 1994ITItalian actress
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 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,125 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 10K | #894 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.7K | #2,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 714 | #15,884 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 180 | #1,223 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 159 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 153 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 152 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 41 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #2,228 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 28 | #41,478 |
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 Ondina mean, and where does it come from?
- Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Ondina?
- In the etymology graph, Undine is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ondina?
- A machine transcription gives /ondina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Ondina a male or female name?
- Ondina 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 Ondina have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Ondina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ondina.
- How common is the name Ondina?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,706 people named Ondina in 2022, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Ondina compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Ondina is the 44th most common given name of 23,588 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ondinaThe 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, “Ondina” — the 44th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.