Vary
loc · Latin script
Meaning: nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of var
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vary is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- CZCzechia
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of var
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vary counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | — | Vary | 12 |
| US United States | — | 405 | Vary | 161 |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | Vary | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 187 | — | 56 |
| FR France | — | 46 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 18 | — | — |
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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Vary is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, De Vary, nom d’une localité dans le Maine-et-Loire (Pays de la Loire).
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In English, To change with time or a similar parameter.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, rice (raw seeds used as food)
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)
- Henri-Louis Varyb. 1876FRFrench military personnel (1876–1968)
- Ralph Vary Chamberlinb. 1879USAmerican biologist (1879–1967)
- Sigismond Kolos-Varyb. 1899FRHungarian born French painter (1899-1983)
- Alec Varyb. 1908Australian rules footballer (1908–1977)
- Elisabeth Varyb. 1940DEGerman painter
- James P. Varyb. 1943USAmerican physicist
- Jacques Varyb. 1957FRFrench politician
- Lucienne Renaudin Varyb. 1999FRFrench musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Vary mean, and where does it come from?
- nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of var Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Vary have the most bearers?
- Vary is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled vary.
What do you want to know about Vary?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/varyThe 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, “Vary”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.