Viana
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Castelo, a city in the province of Minho, or Viana do Alentejo, a town in the province of Alto Alentejo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bjanɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Viana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 878(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.8K
- ESSpain1 in 13K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 814 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Viaña in UY Uruguay, AR Argentina.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Castelo, a city in the province of Minho, or Viana do Alentejo, a town in the province of Alto Alentejo. Vianelli see Vivian
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Viana, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #82 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 878 | 430 | Viana | 226 |
| PT Portugal | #128 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Viana | 129 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,161 | 1 in 814 | 4.2K | Viaña | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,849 | 1 in 13K | 3.8K | Viana | 99 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,204 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | Viaña | 19 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Viana | 14 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
Viana 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 German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Galician, Viana do Bolo: a municipality and town in Ourense, Galicia, Spain
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)
- Manuel Oribeb. 1792UYnot in their usual name2nd President of Uruguay (1835-38)
- Henrique Vianab. 1936PTactor (1936-2007)
- José Viana de Oliveira Paulab. 1938BRBrazilian film director
- Djavanb. 1949BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer/songwriter
- Marcelo Vianab. 1962BRBrazilian mathematician
- Sandro Vianab. 1977BRathletics competitor
- Hugo Miguel Ferreira Gomes Vianab. 1983PTPortuguese footballer
- Hernanesb. 1985BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Diogo Vianab. 1990PTPortuguese footballer
- Juan Izquierdob. 1997UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer (1997–2024)
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 68 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 430 | #15,727 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 369 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 259 | #16,487 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 110 | #16,487 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 40 | #33,601 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 37 | #16,247 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 26 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 2 | #4,839 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2008 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Viana mean?
- Recorded meaning: Castelo, a city in the province of Minho, or Viana do Alentejo, a town in the province of Alto Alentejo.
- Where does the name Viana come from?
- Castelo, a city in the province of Minho, or Viana do Alentejo, a town in the province of Alto Alentejo. Vianelli see Vivian Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Viana?
- A machine transcription gives /bjanɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Viana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 241 thousand people named Viana in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viana.
- Where is Viana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viana is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 814 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Viana?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 4,161 people named Viana, about 1 in 814 residents.
- How common is Viana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Viana is the 82nd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vianaThe 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, “Viana” — the 82nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.