Vâ

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Vâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 366K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 928K
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

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.

United States (measured from records)

909 people, 2020

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 366K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Va in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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.

Sources 3

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vâ 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.

Where Vâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9091 in 366K475—29
BR Brazil701 in 3M755——
SE Sweden111 in 928K11——
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——
FR France≈2 est.≈1 in 31M89Va154
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——

909 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vâ is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Italy, Russia

    Also written Va, Vã, Vă, Vä, Vẫ

  • English surname100 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: English, Hindi, Russian

    Also written Va, Вах, Wa, Ва, Wah

  • Italian given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Mexico, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Va, Vá, V'A, Vã, Vă

  • Polish name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Va, Vặ, Vã, Và, Vä

4 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vâ is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kix, to discard, dispose

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Vâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Vâ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 909 people named Vâ, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vâ most common?
Vâ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 366 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vâ?
In the United States, the national register counted 909 people named Vâ in 2020, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.

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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, “Vâ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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