Ionel
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ionel is a given name, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Ion + -el.
- RORomania1 in 158◐
- UAUkraine1 in 309K
- USUnited States1 in 885K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈138K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 66 ●
- 1 in 158 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
7.7K records
Official registry-verified
Romania
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ионел in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Іонел 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●
From Ion + -el.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #19 | 134,570△ | 226 rec. | 1 in 158 | 135K | Ionel | 49 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,318△ | 312 rec. | 1 in 22K | 2.4K | Ionel | 23 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 1,015 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Іонел | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | 974 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Ionel | 58 |
| RU Russia | — | 724 | 417 rec. | — | — | Ионел | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 492 | 521 rec. | — | listed | Ionel | 44 |
| IT Italy | — | 413 | 537 rec. | — | 1 | Ionel | 21 |
| MD Moldova | — | 383△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 8.8K | 383 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 376 | 2K rec. | 1 in 885K | 376 | Ionel | 66 |
| AT Austria | — | 177 | 156 rec. | — | 5 | Ionel | 27 |
| SE Sweden | — | 163△ | 53 rec. | 1 in 63K | 163 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 128 | — | 1 in 46K | 128 | — | — |
Roughly 135K people in Romania bear this name (about 1 in 158). 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●
- Hungarian269K59%
- English138K30%
- Romanian23K5%
- Spanish13K3%
- French4.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 269,221 | 59% |
| English | 138,275 | 30% |
| Romanian | 22,699 | 5% |
| Spanish | 12,756 | 3% |
| French | 4,148 | 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●
Ionel 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 Romanian, a diminutive of the male given name Ion, equivalent to English Johnny
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2000 | 24 |
| 2001 | 24 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 23 |
| 2004 | 24 |
| 2005 | 25 |
| 2006 | 26 |
| 2007 | 36 |
| 2008 | 46 |
| 2009 | 50 |
| 2010 | 58 |
| 2011 | 61 |
| 2012 | 65 |
| 2013 | 68 |
| 2014 | 73 |
| 2015 | 78 |
| 2016 | 86 |
| 2017 | 84 |
| 2018 | 93 |
| 2019 | 98 |
| 2020 | 96 |
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●
- Ion I. C. Brătianub. 1864ROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician (1864–1927)
- Ionel Teodoreanub. 1897RORomanian writer (1897-1954)
- Ionel Perleab. 1900RORomanian conductor (1900-1970)
- Ion Moţab. 1902HUnot in their usual nameRomanian politician (1902-1937)
- Ionel Petrovb. 1934RORomanian rower
- Ionel Sinescub. 1951RORomanian academic
- Ionel Augustinb. 1955RORomanian footballer
- Nicolae Ciucăb. 1967ROnot in their usual name70th Prime Minister of Romania (2021-2023)
- Ionel Ganeab. 1973RORomanian football coach and former player
- Ionel Dănciulescub. 1976RORomanian footballer
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 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2023 | 135K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2023 | 135K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.4K | #668 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.3K | #1,570 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 383 | #524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 376 | #25,276 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 262 | #3,913 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 232 | #3,193 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 188 | #17,383 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 188 | #17,305 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 163 | #6,065 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 128 | #1,218 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ionel?
- We estimate roughly 138 thousand people bear Ionel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ionel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 135 thousand people bear Ionel in Romania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ionel.
- Where is Ionel most common?
- Ionel is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 158 people carrying it.
- How common is Ionel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ionel is the 19th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
- Is Ionel a male or female name?
- Ionel 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 Ionel mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Ion + -el.
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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, “Ionel” — the 19th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.