Inci

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Inci is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Azerbaijan it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Azerbaijani, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pearl.

rarermore common
  • AZAzerbaijan1 in 755◐
  • TRTürkiye1 in 2.7K
  • CYCyprus1 in 4.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈400 ●

across 6 countries

Sources
51 ●

317K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 137K ◐

Netherlands

Meaning & origin●

pearl

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Inci is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#482201,736315K rec.—4KInci51
AZ Azerbaijan#735,845115 rec.—3.9KInci14
CY Cyprus#525535689 rec.——Inci8
SY Syria—226276 rec.——Inci2
US United States—200186 rec.1 in 1.7M200Inci20
BE Belgium—136178 rec.—23Inci4
NL Netherlands—126252 rec.1 in 137K126Inci10
CH Switzerland—91114 rec.—81Inci4
KG Kyrgyzstan—8616 rec.——Inci3
GB United Kingdom—6980 rec.——Inci15
DK Denmark—36—1 in 163K36——
PL Poland—17△3 rec.1 in 2.3M17—1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish199K91%
  • Azerbaijani5.7K3%
  • Kurdish4K2%
  • German3.4K2%
  • English1.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish199,19191%
Azerbaijani5,7063%
Kurdish4,0122%
German3,4412%
English1,4231%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Inci is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name8.7K records spelled Inci10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Ïncî, Īnçi, Ïnci, Inçi

  • French given name2.0K records spelled Inci4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, United States

    Also written Îñci, Inçi

  • Spanish given name1.4K records spelled Inci4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Mexico, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Incï, Inči

48 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●

Inci is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, İstiridye gibi kimi kavkılı deniz hayvanlarının içinde oluşan değerli, küçük, sert, sedef renginde süs tanesi.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • Perla

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Indonesian, inch, a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimetres

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, inflection of incus:

    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.

Over time●

020406020002005201020152020

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Inci in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199918
200017
200117
200218
200319
200420
200522
200622
200727
200828
200927
201029
201128
201228
201328
201428
201532
201632
201732
201835
201937
202042

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●

1920194019601980İnci Birol, b. 1933İnci Çayırlı, b. 1935İnci Enginün, b. 1940İnci Aral, b. 1944İnci Asena, b. 1948İnci Eviner, b. 1956İnci Dirim, b. 1965İnci Y., b. 1970İnci Türkay, b. 1976İnci Pars Özgürgün, b. 1980

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 41 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Inci
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20254K#9
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics—3.9K—
TR TürkiyeTÜİK NIP — newborn names20243.2K#13
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020200#38,175
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—140#5,522
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—126#4,819
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007116#16,937
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—87#8,685
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202481#12,967
AZ AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Popular Baby Names202679—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—77#10,122
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202456#771

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 140 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Inci?
We estimate roughly 400 people bear Inci (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Inci have the most bearers?
Inci is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled inci.
How common is Inci compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Inci is the 482nd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
Is Inci a male or female name?
Inci 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 Inci mean?
Recorded meaning: pearl
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Inci” — the 482nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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