Vó
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: hoofed-feet of any ungulates
Vó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 3.7K
- FIFinland1 in 10K
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)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
36,236 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vo in US United States, AO Angola.
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
(measured from records)clipping of avó; granny, grandma
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Vó is read
(measured from records)Vó 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.
- Vietnamese44%
hoofed-feet of any ungulates
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese30%
clipping of avó; granny, grandma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vó in Spanish.
- Lao5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vó in Lao.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Vó 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.
36,236 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Vó 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 Icelandic, past of vega
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
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Vó come from?
- clipping of avó; granny, grandma Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Vó mean?
- In Vietnamese, hoofed-feet of any ungulates
- In which country does Vó have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Vó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vo.
- Where is Vó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vó is densest in Norway — about 1 in 3.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 36,236 people named Vó in 2010, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Vó compared with other names?
- In Angola, Vó is the 254th most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%B3The 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, “Vó” — the 254th most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.