Ondina
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ondina is a given name, most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology.
- HNHonduras1 in 946◐
- BRBrazil1 in 32K
- CLChile1 in 41K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.8K ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 23K ◐
across 8 countries
45K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Meaning & origin●
Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 4 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #44 | 19,343 | 19K rec. | — | — | Ondina | 21 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,706 | 8.6K rec. | 1 in 32K | 10K | Ondina | 68 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,380 | 1.8K rec. | — | 3 | Ondina | 26 |
| CL Chile | — | 2,178 | 83 rec. | — | 1 | Ondina | 21 |
| MX Mexico | — | 950 | 790 rec. | — | 10 | Ondina | 38 |
| PE Peru | — | 895 | 713 rec. | — | — | Ondina | 21 |
| US United States | — | 714 | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 466K | 714 | Ondina | 112 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 658 | 618 rec. | — | — | Ondina | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | #770 | 613 | 449 rec. | — | 1 | Ondina | 11 |
| NI Nicaragua | #609 | 600 | 596 rec. | — | — | Ondina | 13 |
| PT Portugal | — | 415 | 178 rec. | — | listed | Ondina | 33 |
| HR Croatia | — | 180 | 0 rec. | 1 in 23K | 180 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese132K72%
- Spanish32K18%
- English12K7%
- Croatian1.1K1%
- 7851%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 132,130 | 72% |
| Spanish | 32,191 | 18% |
| English | 12,370 | 7% |
| Croatian | 1,135 | 1% |
| 785 | 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●
Ondina 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 Spanish, undine, water sprite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, undine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, undine, mermaid
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 |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 76 |
| 2009 | 77 |
| 2010 | 76 |
| 2011 | 75 |
| 2012 | 74 |
| 2013 | 74 |
| 2014 | 74 |
| 2015 | 72 |
| 2016 | 71 |
| 2017 | 71 |
| 2018 | 69 |
| 2019 | 66 |
| 2020 | 66 |
| 2021 | 66 |
| 2022 | 66 |
| 2023 | 65 |
| 2024 | 63 |
| 2025 | 64 |
SI SURS — resident population given names — 18 years between 2008–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ondina Valéria Pimentelb. 1916BRBrazilian Mãe-de-santo
- Ondina Otta Klasincb. 1924SISlovene opera singer
- Dinab. 1956PTnot in their usual namePortuguese singer (1956-2019)
- Ondina Piresb. 1961PTperformance artist, writer, music and one of the pioneers of Portuguese punk
- Ondina Clais Castilhob. 1970BRBrazilian actress
- Ondina Maldonadob. 1987ESsinger, actress
- Ondina Quadrib. 1994ITItalian actress
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 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,125 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 10K | #894 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.7K | #2,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 714 | #15,884 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 180 | #1,223 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 159 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 98 | #16,056 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 88 | #7,769 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 78 | #32,709 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 78 | #32,674 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 77 | #687 |
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 · 312 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ondina?
- We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Ondina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ondina have the most bearers?
- Ondina is most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is most often spelled ondina.
- How common is Ondina compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Ondina is the 44th most common given name of 23,431 given names recorded there.
- Is Ondina a male or female name?
- Ondina 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 Ondina mean?
- Recorded meaning: Literary name for a water elemental or spirit in mythology.
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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, “Ondina” — the 44th most common given name in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.