Names of Indonesia ID

A large share of people in Indonesia carry a single name, with no family name to follow it; Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names records Nurhayati as the commonest given name in Indonesia.

Written in Indonesian.

Population: 267M
Official registers: 12
Name forms recorded: 39K

BBuilt from 12 official registers, 38,579 name forms in our corpus, 11 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

fewerlarger share

Where the names most characteristic of Indonesia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Indonesia included.

How names work in Indonesia

3 naming traditions are in use in Indonesia, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Indonesia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1

Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names — 10 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#	Name	Bearers recorded	Our rank
1	Nurhayati	255K	1
2	Sulastri	193K	2
3	Sumiati	173K	—
4	Sri Wahyuni	163K	21
5	Sumarni	159K	6
6	Sunarti	136K	—
7	Siti Aminah	122K	23
8	Ernawati	118K	12
9	Aminah	117K	5
10	Kartini	115K	13

No inherited surnames here

A large share of Indonesians, Javanese especially, are mononymous, and where a second element exists it is frequently a patronymic or a given name rather than an inherited family name. ID's 12,785 given names and 0 surnames is therefore close to the right SHAPE; the 3,148 `full` rows from kitab-rangkaian-islami-2020 are the correct destination for compound Islamic names. Chinese-Indonesian surnames are a real but small sub-population. Our record corpus does hold "surnames" for this country, but they are largely records of residents from elsewhere, so we do not publish them as a ranking.

Where the two lists disagree

4 of Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names's top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.

Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names on the left; every record we hold for Indonesia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Indonesia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Indonesia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Sized by how much of the difference between Indonesia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Indonesia are written in Latin (98%) and Thai (2%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

The best-attested names in Indonesia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given namesheadline (given)
Direktorat Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil (Dukcapil), Kemendagri, Indonesia. Counts: residents. given. 10 forms.
What we know about this register
Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 20 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: ektp_alltime_2024snapshot
Last verified 2026-06-05.
Dukcapil — 2024 newborn names2024
Direktorat Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil (Dukcapil), Kemendagri, Indonesia. Counts: residents. given. 10 forms. 2024.
What we know about this register
Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 20 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: newborns_2024_dukcapil
Last verified 2026-06-05.
Dukcapil — Top-10 nama terpopuler e-KTP (Most popular e-KTP names)
Ditjen Dukcapil, Kemendagri (Directorate General of Population & Civil Registration). Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. Licence: Free (official press release).
What we know about this register
Official Dukcapil press release (Jan 2025) citing Deputy Minister Bima Arya Sugiarto. Data: e-KTP 2024 ~206M registered citizens, all ages (not newborns). Top-10 names per sex with exact counts. Javanese-influenced names dominate (Sutrisno, Slamet, Nurhayati, Sulastri). Compound names (Sri Wahyuni, Siti Aminah) included as registered. No bulk download available — Dukcapil does not publish the full name frequency dataset.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
The article discusses the most popular boys' names in Indonesia recorded in E-KTPs for 2024, published by Databoks.2024not a population count
databoks.katadata.co.id. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2024. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The article discusses the most popular boys' names in Indonesia recorded in E-KTPs for 2024, published by Databoks.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
Daftar nama paling banyak digunakan di Indonesia berdasarkan data Kartu Tanda Penduduk, dipublikasikan oleh Kementerian2022not a population count
indonesiabaik.id. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2022. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Daftar nama paling banyak digunakan di Indonesia berdasarkan data Kartu Tanda Penduduk, dipublikasikan oleh Kementerian Dalam Negeri.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
This page features a collection of Indonesian names provided by Moonboon.not a population count
moonboon.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 50 forms. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page features a collection of Indonesian names provided by Moonboon.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
This article discusses the unique baby name trends in Indonesia for 2024, published by Dukcapil.2024not a population count
disdukcapil.pangkalpinangkota.go.id. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2024. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This article discusses the unique baby name trends in Indonesia for 2024, published by Dukcapil. ID FIX 2026-07-31: the id was truncated mid-word leaving a trailing hyphen, which fails the registry kebab-case validator. publisher is disdukcapil.pangkalpinangkota.go.id; "go-id" was dropped. Renamed together with the normalized parquet (filename AND its source_id column) and a full rebuild, so attestations.source_id and sources.id moved in one step and attestations_source_fk never dangled.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
The page lists the 20 most common names in Indonesia according to a report by Tempo.co.2023not a population count
en.tempo.co. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Tempo.co (Indonesian news) article on most common names per Dukcapil; 20-row parquet has count=0 (rank-only: Sutrisno, Slamet, Mulyadi, Herman...). Better sources with actual counts: id-disc-databoks-katadata-co-id and id-disc-indonesiabaik-id.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
This page provides a comparison of the most popular baby names in Indonesia for 2023 and 2024, based on data released by2024not a population count
forum.nameberry.com. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2023–2024. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. This page provides a comparison of the most popular baby names in Indonesia for 2023 and 2024, based on data released by the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
The page features rankings of the most popular names in Indonesia according to the Dukcapil, published by Radar Palemban2023not a population count
radarpalembang.disway.id. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Radar Palembang (regional newspaper) citing Dukcapil director Zudan; 10-row parquet has count=0 (rank-only: same names as id-disc-en-tempo-co). Better source: id-disc-databoks-katadata-co-id has actual counts for the same Dukcapil data.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
Top 100 names from around the world + Penpal Statistics @ Students of the World.not a population count
studentsoftheworld.info. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Top 100 names from around the world + Penpal Statistics @ Students of the World.
Last verified 2026-05-11.
Yearly name popularity lists for Indonesia published by BabyNames.ch.not a population count
www.babynames.ch. Counts: newborns. given. 6 forms. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. Yearly name popularity lists for Indonesia published by BabyNames.ch.
Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

Balinese caste system / Sudra majorityweb
Balinese nameencyclopaedia
Balinese Names | bali.com (search snippet)web
Balinese Naming Systemweb
Indonesianweb
Indonesian namesencyclopaedia
Malaysianweb
Malaysian namesencyclopaedia
Marga (Batak)encyclopaedia
Minangkabau peopleencyclopaedia
Why Malaysian Muslims have 'bin' or 'binti'web

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Indonesia?: Nurhayati, according to Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names, with 254,922 bearers recorded among girls.
Do people in Indonesia have surnames?: A large share of Indonesians, Javanese especially, are mononymous, and where a second element exists it is frequently a patronymic or a given name rather than an inherited family name. ID's 12,785 given names and 0 surnames is therefore close to the right SHAPE; the 3,148 `full` rows from kitab-rangkaian-islami-2020 are the correct destination for compound Islamic names. Chinese-Indonesian surnames are a real but small sub-population.
Is there one naming system in Indonesia?: No — 3 are described on this page (Indonesian and Malay, Balinese, Javanese), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Indonesia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/ID (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names.