Iben
given name · Danish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iben is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname; either patronym to the personal name Ibo or dwelling-/origin-name to 'Eibe'.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2K◐
- NONorway1 in 1.7K
- SESweden1 in 33K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.6K ●
- Sources
- 86 ●
- 1 in 1.2K ◐
across 8 countries
766 records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Meaning & origin●
Toponymic surname; either patronym to the personal name Ibo or dwelling-/origin-name to 'Eibe'. Bearer count: 161.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 5,024 | — | 1 in 1.2K | 5K | — | — |
| NO Norway | 3,236△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 11K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 308 | — | 1 in 33K | 308 | — | — |
| FR France | 239 | 685 rec. | — | — | Iben | 86 |
| NL Netherlands | 37△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 467K | 37 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 16 | 16 rec. | — | 1 | Iben | 1 |
| FI Finland | 14 | — | 1 in 398K | 36 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 23 rec. | — | — | Iben | 8 |
| PL Poland | 4 | — | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | — | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 10 rec. | — | 161 | — | 5 |
Roughly 5K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 1.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Danish19K44%
- Norwegian Bokmål11K26%
- Hindi8.8K20%
- English1.3K3%
- Indonesian3501%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | 18,794 | 44% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 11,120 | 26% |
| Hindi | 8,793 | 20% |
| English | 1,286 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 350 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Iben 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 Latvian, lieto negatīvas attieksmes izteikšanai, arī kā lamuvārdu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 4 |
| 1993 | 13 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 8 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 27 |
| 2001 | 25 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 32 |
| 2004 | 84 |
| 2005 | 69 |
| 2006 | 74 |
| 2007 | 72 |
| 2008 | 63 |
| 2009 | 51 |
| 2010 | 57 |
| 2011 | 80 |
| 2012 | 97 |
| 2013 | 91 |
| 2014 | 93 |
| 2015 | 115 |
| 2016 | 165 |
| 2017 | 193 |
| 2018 | 152 |
| 2019 | 162 |
| 2020 | 180 |
| 2021 | 212 |
| 2022 | 266 |
| 2023 | 258 |
| 2024 | 253 |
| 2025 | 222 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 38 years between 1988–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Iben Nagel Rasmussenb. 1945DKDanish actress
- Iben Sandemoseb. 1950NOwriter and illustrator
- Iben Skibsted Klæsøeb. 1951Danish archaeologist
- Iben Krogsdalb. 1967DKDanish writer
- Iben Tinningb. 1974DKprofessional golfer
- Iben Amelieh Emine Dornerb. 1978DKDanish actress
- Iben Maria Zeuthenb. 1985Danish actress
- Iben Akerlieb. 1988NONorwegian actress
- Iben Bergsteinb. 1995DKbadminton player
- Iben LarsenDKDanish female curler
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●
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 241 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Iben?
- We estimate roughly 8.6 thousand people bear Iben (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Iben have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.0 thousand people bear Iben in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Iben most common?
- Iben is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Iben a male or female name?
- Iben 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.
- What does the name Iben mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname; either patronym to the personal name Ibo or dwelling-/origin-name to 'Eibe'.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Iben”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.