Ioannis
given name · Greek · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ioannis is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Greek and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Greece.
- CUCuba1 in 12◐
- GTGuatemala1 in 16
- CZCzechia1 in 18
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11M ●
- #3 ●
- 14 ●
- Sources
- 659 ●
- 1 in 18 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
100M records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Juan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 6 more, John in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 5 more, Jan in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, DK Denmark and 1 more and Sebastian in DE Germany, EC Ecuador.
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●
Greece
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 18 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #2 | 12,961,300 | 7.5M rec. | — | 5.7K | Juan | 239 |
| MX Mexico | #3 | 5,288,311 | 4.2M rec. | — | 4.7K | Juan | 302 |
| GB United Kingdom | #1 | 4,533,251 | 4M rec. | — | 1.1K | John | 396 |
| BR Brazil | #3 | 3,430,608 | 4.4M rec. | 1 in 62 | 3.4M | Joao | 248 |
| PE Peru | #4 | 3,194,653 | 2.3M rec. | — | 555K | Juan | 176 |
| US United States | #2 | 3,118,620 | 55M rec. | 1 in 107 | 3.1M | John | 659 |
| VE Venezuela | #8 | 2,400,453 | 870K rec. | — | 21K | Juan | 160 |
| GT Guatemala | #3 | 2,227,734 | 180K rec. | — | 3.1K | Juan | 142 |
| PH Philippines | #3 | 2,098,130 | 1.4M rec. | — | listed | John | 240 |
| AU Australia | #1 | 1,965,730 | 1.7M rec. | — | 570 | John | 410 |
| CO Colombia | #2 | 1,937,062 | 665K rec. | — | 1.2K | Juan | 277 |
| FR France | #1 | 1,910,400 | 4.1M rec. | 1 in 36 | 1.9M | Jean | 474 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Greek1M59%
- English670K39%
- German9.4K1%
- French2.2K1%
- Spanish1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Greek | 1,007,399 | 59% |
| English | 670,422 | 39% |
| German | 9,400 | 1% |
| French | 2,243 | 1% |
| Spanish | 1,588 | 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●
Ioannis 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 Swedish, Ioannis är den nygrekiska formen av → Johannes.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ιωάννης (Ioánnis).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive of Iōannēs
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1971 | 15 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 20 |
| 1974 | 20 |
| 1975 | 19 |
| 1976 | 29 |
| 1977 | 22 |
| 1978 | 20 |
| 1979 | 26 |
| 1980 | 28 |
| 1981 | 35 |
| 1982 | 27 |
| 1983 | 29 |
| 1984 | 22 |
| 1985 | 21 |
| 1986 | 23 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 28 |
| 1989 | 32 |
| 1990 | 21 |
| 1991 | 25 |
| 1992 | 27 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 28 |
| 1995 | 17 |
| 1996 | 23 |
| 1997 | 19 |
| 1998 | 27 |
| 1999 | 27 |
| 2000 | 22 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 28 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 31 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 39 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 28 |
| 2010 | 36 |
| 2011 | 35 |
| 2012 | 22 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 22 |
| 2016 | 30 |
| 2017 | 28 |
| 2018 | 40 |
| 2019 | 18 |
| 2020 | 35 |
| 2021 | 33 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 20 |
| 2024 | 35 |
| 2025 | 29 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 57 years between 1964–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- John Chrysostomb. 349TRnot in their usual nameChurch father, Archbishop of Constantinople and Christian saint (c. 347–407)
- John of Damascusb. 675SYnot in their usual nameChristian monk, priest, hymnographer and apologist (675/6-749)
- John III Doukas Vatatzesb. 1192GRnot in their usual nameEmperor of Nicaea
- John V Palaiologosb. 1332GRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
- John VII Palaiologosb. 1370TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
- John VIII Palaiologosb. 1392TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
- Ioannes Argyropylus Byzantiusb. 1415ITnot in their usual nameGreek lecturer, philosopher and humanist
- Ioannis Kapodistriasb. 1776GRGreek statesman and diplomat (1776–1831)
- Ioannis Metaxasb. 1871GRGreek military officer and politician (1871–1941)
- Yanis Varoufakisb. 1961GRnot in their usual nameGreek economist and politician
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 52 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 · 307 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ioannis?
- We estimate roughly 11 million people bear Ioannis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ioannis have the most bearers?
- Ioannis is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled juan.
- How common is Ioannis compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Ioannis is the 2nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Ioannis a male or female name?
- Ioannis is a male 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 Ioannis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Greece
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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, “Ioannis” — the 2nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.