Ionut

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Ionut is a given name, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 59◐
  • ITItaly1 in 7.5K
  • ESSpain1 in 24K

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

≈367K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
146 ●

59K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 59 ◐

Romania

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ionuț in MD Moldova, ID Indonesia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ionut is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#3361,680△28K rec.1 in 59362KIonut146
GB United Kingdom—7,3685.1K rec.—listedIonut106
IT Italy#7856,7379.6K rec.—1Ionut86
DE Germany—3,0713.9K rec.—1Ionut104
ES Spain—2,0525.6K rec.1 in 24K2.2KIonut97
MD Moldova#8801,398△170 rec.1 in 2.4K1.4KIonuț16
BE Belgium—765867 rec.—2Ionut36
NL Netherlands—655625 rec.——Ionut46
SE Sweden—529△92 rec.1 in 19K529—22
AT Austria—511459 rec.—16Ionut43
DK Denmark—379△1 rec.1 in 15K379—2
US United States—3202.9K rec.1 in 1M320Ionut144

Roughly 362K people in Romania bear this name (about 1 in 59). 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●

  • Hungarian724K60%
  • English368K31%
  • Romanian53K4%
  • Spanish29K2%
  • French9.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian723,59260%
English367,74431%
Romanian52,5984%
Spanish28,7562%
French9,9351%

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◐

Ionut is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name33K records spelled Ionut11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania, Italy, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ionuț, Íonuț, Iòñut, Iönùt, Ionuţ

  • French given name14K records spelled Ionut7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Romania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ionuț, Íonut, Ïoñûţ, Ionuţ

  • Polish given name2.7K records spelled Ionut25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Macedonian, Croatian

    Also written Ionuț, Ионут, Ionuţ, Iòñūț, Iòñut

  • Danish given name2.1K records spelled Ionut12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Romania, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic

    Also written Ionuț, Ionuţ

  • Turkish given name795 records spelled Ionut6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Ionuț, Ïönüt, Ionuţ

  • Finnish given name795 records spelled Ionut6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Ionuț, Ionuţ

  • Swahili given name726 records spelled Ionut4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Ionuț

46 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.

Over time●

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Ionut in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2007–2020
Yearrecords
200729
200854
200968
201077
201184
201286
201396
2014109
2015125
2016136
2017154
2018173
2019200
2020205

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 14 years between 2007–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Ionuț Badea, b. 1975Ionuț Mazilu, b. 1982Cristian Săpunaru, b. 1984Ionuț Gheorghe, b. 1984Ionuț Neagu, b. 1989Ionuț Silaghi de Oaș, b. 1990Andrei Ursu, b. 1993Ionuț Nedelcearu, b. 1996Ionuț Radu, b. 1997Dragoș Nedelcu, b. 1997

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 28 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Ionut
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.2K#726
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.1K#1,700
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—540#2,388
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—529#2,658
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—379#598
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020320#28,022
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—314#2,668
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024277—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023267—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022250—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020205—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019200—

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ionut?
We estimate roughly 367 thousand people bear Ionut (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ionut have the most bearers?
We estimate about 362 thousand people bear Ionut in Romania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ionut.
Where is Ionut most common?
Ionut is densest in Romania, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 people carrying it.
How common is Ionut compared with other names?
In Romania, Ionut is the 3rd most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
Is Ionut a male or female name?
Ionut 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Ionut” — the 3rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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