Ionela
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ionela is a given name, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Ionel + -a, from Ion.
- RORomania1 in 144◐
- MDMoldova1 in 624
- ISIceland1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈156K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 69 ●
- 1 in 144 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
4.3K records
Official registry-verified
Romania
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ионела in RU Russia, TR Türkiye and Іонела 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 Ionel + -a, from Ion.
Sources 1
Attested across 24 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 | #17 | 148,141△ | 542 rec. | 1 in 144 | 148K | Ionela | 49 |
| MD Moldova | — | 5,395△ | 24 rec. | 1 in 624 | 5.4K | Ionela | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,734△ | 250 rec. | 1 in 29K | 1.8K | Ionela | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | 949 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Ionela | 69 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 443 | 438 rec. | — | — | Іонела | 9 |
| RU Russia | — | 342 | 178 rec. | — | — | Ионела | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 322 | 330 rec. | — | listed | Ionela | 42 |
| IT Italy | — | 239 | 260 rec. | — | 2 | Ionela | 35 |
| US United States | — | 212 | 557 rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 212 | Ionela | 66 |
| AT Austria | — | 203 | 203 rec. | — | 11 | Ionela | 28 |
| SE Sweden | — | 177△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 58K | 177 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 119 | — | 1 in 49K | 119 | — | — |
Roughly 148K people in Romania bear this name (about 1 in 144). 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●
- Hungarian296K59%
- English150K30%
- Romanian27K5%
- Spanish16K3%
- French3.1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 296,385 | 59% |
| English | 150,186 | 30% |
| Romanian | 26,709 | 5% |
| Spanish | 16,452 | 3% |
| French | 3,100 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 31 |
| 2009 | 38 |
| 2010 | 39 |
| 2011 | 47 |
| 2012 | 45 |
| 2013 | 48 |
| 2014 | 61 |
| 2015 | 66 |
| 2016 | 73 |
| 2017 | 75 |
| 2018 | 80 |
| 2019 | 86 |
| 2020 | 84 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 16 years between 2005–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ionela Prodanb. 1947ROInterpreter of Romanian folk music (1947-2018)
- Ionela Gouandjika-Vasilacheb. 1960CFscientist and badminton executive
- Ionela Bruchental-Popb. 1973politician
- Ionela Târleab. 1976RORomanian hurdler and sprinter
- Ionela Loaieșb. 1979RORomanian gymnast
- Iulia-Ionela Ionicăb. 1980RORomanian chess player
- Ionela Stancab. 1981RORomanian handball player
- Minellib. 1988ROnot in their usual nameRomanian singer-songwriter
- Ionela-Livia Cozmiucb. 1995RORomanian rower
- Ionela ManolescoCAQuebec poet and essayist
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 34 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2023 | 148K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2023 | 148K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 5.4K | #165 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #948 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #1,929 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 248 | #4,086 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 212 | #36,840 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 177 | #5,689 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 119 | #1,405 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 86 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 80 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 74 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ionela?
- We estimate roughly 156 thousand people bear Ionela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ionela have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 148 thousand people bear Ionela in Romania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ionela.
- Where is Ionela most common?
- Ionela is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 144 people carrying it.
- How common is Ionela compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ionela is the 17th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
- Is Ionela a male or female name?
- Ionela 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 Ionela mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Ionel + -a, from Ion.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ionelaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Ionela” — the 17th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.