Ide
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘sluice’, ‘spillway’; a topographic name for someone who lived near a dam
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ide is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Niger than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 70K
- USUnited States1 in 119K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Niger (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Niger, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘sluice’, ‘spillway’; a topographic name for someone who lived near a dam. Variously written, it originated in Echizen and Kaga (now Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures) and is found mostly in eastern Japan.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ide is read(measured from records)
Ide is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English42%
‘sluice’, ‘spillway’; a topographic name for someone who lived near a dam. Variously written, it originated in Echizen and Kaga (now Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures) and is found mostly in eastern Japan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Ida. There is a place called Ide near Exeter in Devon; the etymology is obscure, perhaps from a pre-English river name; it does not seem to be corrected with the surname.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ide in Turkish.
- Japanese16%
Rōmaji transcription of いで
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ide in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ide counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NE Niger | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 1 | — | 5 |
| IN India | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 333K | 4 | — | 11 |
| US United States | — | 2,784 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Ide | 293 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Ide | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Ide | 13 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Ide | 87 |
| BE Belgium | — | 878 | 1 in 13K | 878 | Ide | 33 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Ide | 72 |
| BB Barbados | #175 | — | — | — | Ide | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ide is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, 1 energy, force, craft 2 energetic, young
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Swedish, a den for hibernation (of a bear or various other animals)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William B. Ideb. 1796USCalifornian politician (1796–1852)
- Henry Clay Ideb. 1844USAmerican politician (1844-1921)
- Tameo Ideb. 1908JPJapanese association football player (1908-1998)
- Ichitarō Ideb. 1912JPJapanese politician (1912-1996)
- Masato Ideb. 1920JPJapanese screenwriter
- Minako Ideb. 1942JPJapanese actress
- Kaname Ideb. 1947JPJapanese speed skater
- Yasuaki Ideb. 1970JPJapanese singer-songwriter
- Takuya Ideb. 1991JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Haruya Ideb. 1994JPJapanese association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #11,034 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 878 | #1,583 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 870 | #1,567 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 55 | #33,673 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ide mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘sluice’, ‘spillway’; a topographic name for someone who lived near a dam. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Ide have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Ide in the Niger, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Ide?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Ide?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,784 people named Ide in 2010, about 1 in 119 thousand residents.
- How common is Ide compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Ide is the 175th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ideThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ide” — the 175th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.