Ionut
Just 88 men in Poland carry this name, and records show no newborns given it in recent years: meeting one would stick in your memory. Its root is Latin, meaning "god is gracious".
Ionut Pronunciation
Ionut is pronounced YO-noot (/ˈjɔnut/).
What Ionut means
Where Ionut comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ionut comes to a Polish reader from Romania, where it is a familiar form of Ion. Ion descends from the Latin Ioannes, the spelling Rome used in its records and its liturgy. The meaning attached to that name is "God is gracious." The Romanian ending -ut is affectionate, so Ionut reads like a smaller, warmer Ion.
That Latin Ioannes seeded much of Europe. It stands behind the Polish Jan, the French Jean, the Hungarian Janos. Ionut sits in the same line, a Romanian offshoot rather than a Polish one, and it stays a boy's name.
At a Polish urząd the name would be written Ionut, the tail dropped from the Romanian Ionuț. The sense stays where it began. God is gracious.
How many people are named Ionut
1 in 242570 men in Poland is named Ionut. 88 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3751 among male names.