Ilze
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ilze is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Latvian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Bebrenes pagastā.
- LVLatvia1 in 163◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 24K
- NLNetherlands1 in 58K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 76 ●
- 1 in 163 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
8.1K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Илзе in RU Russia and Ілзе in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Bebrenes pagastā
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #522 | 11,535△ | 420 rec. | 1 in 163 | 12K | Ilze | 43 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,408 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Ilze | 30 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,180 | 918 rec. | 1 in 179K | 1.4K | Ilze | 56 |
| MX Mexico | — | 967 | 583 rec. | — | 1 | Ilze | 50 |
| RU Russia | — | 608 | 294 rec. | — | — | Илзе | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 546 | 502 rec. | — | listed | Ilze | 35 |
| AU Australia | — | 445 | 403 rec. | — | 1 | Ilze | 37 |
| DE Germany | — | 386 | 376 rec. | — | — | Ilze | 60 |
| US United States | — | 372 | 2.2K rec. | 1 in 894K | 372 | Ilze | 76 |
| NO Norway | — | 360 | 20 rec. | — | 346 | Ilze | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 298 | 169 rec. | 1 in 58K | 298 | Ilze | 21 |
| FR France | — | 175 | 129 rec. | — | — | Ilze | 55 |
Roughly 12K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 163). 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●
- Portuguese20K39%
- Latvian18K35%
- English5.2K10%
- Spanish1.4K3%
- German1.3K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 20,162 | 39% |
| Latvian | 17,793 | 35% |
| English | 5,210 | 10% |
| Spanish | 1,439 | 3% |
| German | 1,263 | 2% |
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●
Ilze 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 Latvian, Papirosa čaulīte
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 29 |
| 2000 | 29 |
| 2001 | 31 |
| 2002 | 33 |
| 2003 | 34 |
| 2004 | 34 |
| 2005 | 38 |
| 2006 | 40 |
| 2007 | 41 |
| 2008 | 45 |
| 2009 | 49 |
| 2010 | 53 |
| 2011 | 56 |
| 2012 | 61 |
| 2013 | 67 |
| 2014 | 72 |
| 2015 | 72 |
| 2016 | 75 |
| 2017 | 76 |
| 2018 | 78 |
| 2019 | 79 |
| 2020 | 76 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ilze Graubiņab. 1941LVLatvian musician (1941–2001)
- Ilze Rubeneb. 1958LVLatvian chess player (1958-2002)
- Ilze Liepab. 1963RURussian ballet dancer and actress
- Ilze Viņķeleb. 1971LVLatvian politician
- Ilze Juhansoneb. 1971LVLatvian diplomat and civil servant (born 1971)
- Ilze Indriksoneb. 1974LVLatvian politician
- Ilze Jaunalksneb. 1976LVLatvian journalist (born 1976)
- Ilze Bērziņab. 1984LVchess player
- Ilze Ķuzule-Skrastiņab. 1985LVLatvian actress
- Ilze Hattinghb. 1996ZASouth African tennis player
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 12K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 12K | #28 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.4K | #7,509 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.4K | #3,658 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,397 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 870 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 763 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 509 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 120 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ilze?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Ilze (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ilze have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Ilze in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ilze.
- Where is Ilze most common?
- Ilze is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 163 people carrying it.
- How common is Ilze compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Ilze is the 522nd most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Ilze a male or female name?
- Ilze 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 Ilze mean?
- Recorded meaning: apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Bebrenes pagastā
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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, “Ilze” — the 522nd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.