Ionică
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ionică is a given name, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Romanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Ion + -ică.
- RORomania1 in 1.1K◐
- ITItaly1 in 80K
- ESSpain1 in 112K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- Sources
- 55 ●
- 1 in 1.1K ◐
across 7 countries
3.4K records
Official registry-verified
Romania
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ionica in IT Italy, ES Spain, US United States and 6 more.
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 + -ică.
Sources 1
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #182 | 19,241△ | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 19K | Ionică | 55 |
| IT Italy | — | 636 | 905 rec. | — | — | Ionica | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 445 | 424 rec. | 1 in 112K | 468 | Ionica | 34 |
| US United States | — | 161 | 274 rec. | — | — | Ionica | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 138 | 94 rec. | — | — | Ionica | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | 28 | 33 rec. | — | 1 | Ionica | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 486K | 21 | — | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 13 | 14 rec. | — | — | Ionica | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 12 | 19 rec. | — | — | Ionica | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | — | 1 in 734K | 16 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | — | 6△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 561K | 6 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 11 rec. | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | Ionica | 5 |
Roughly 19K people in Romania bear this name (about 1 in 1.1K). 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●
- English4.5K93%
- Romanian3307%
- French71%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,464 | 93% |
| Romanian | 330 | 7% |
| French | 7 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Marin Ionicăb. 1950RORomanian politician
- Constantin-Cornel Ionicăb. 1954RORomanian politician from Pitești, Argeș County
- Viorica Ionicăb. 1955RORomanian handball player (1955-2020)
- Iulia-Ionela Ionicăb. 1980RORomanian chess player
- Andrei IonicaROPh.D. University of Craiova 2010
- Elena IonicaROresearcher
- Andreea IonicaROresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-1988-9340)
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2023 | 4.5K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2023 | 4.5K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 6 | #3,755 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #340,820 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ionică?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Ionică (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ionică have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 19 thousand people bear Ionică in Romania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ionică.
- Where is Ionică most common?
- Ionică is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Ionică compared with other names?
- In Romania, Ionică is the 182nd most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
- Is Ionică a male or female name?
- Ionică is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Ionică mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Ion + -ică.
Query this name via API
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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, “Ionică” — the 182nd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.