Va
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of United States Department of Veterans Affairs (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Va is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Va is also written Вах in Cyrillic.
- INIndia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 78Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 93K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Va itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Va in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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)Initialism of United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Va is found
(measured from records)Va 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Va | 82 |
| US United States | 1,550as Wah | 1 in 215K | 3.9K | Va | 192 |
| BR Brazil | 1,393as Wa | 1 in 152K | 1.4K | Va | 2 |
| FR France | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 89 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Va | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 189 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 192 | Va | 29 |
| ES Spain | 91 | 1 in 550K | 91 | Va | 18 |
| NO Norway | 50as Wah | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 2 |
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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Va is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, to up and .. (semantically KO va n-yi na ‘debut’ auxiliary verb) ‘up.and exit hither’ —» ‘come out’ : ? rather, or also, n-vaai
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In men, v., to make obeisance, to prostrate, to worship, to salute, to welcome, to visit, to call upon, to shake hands, to send regards, to show respect by presents
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In cdo, YULR x cold water; more, ‘moreover, circumstances, a time, a period, now, to cormpare, to increase, to bestow (AR)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In men, describes the rush- ing sound of wind. Fetei i waa vu
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Swedish, initialism of vatten och avlopp (“water and sewer”)
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)- Reimo Vab. 1975EEEstonian guitarist (born 1975)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Va mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Va?
- Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Va in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled va. After it come United States, Brazil, France and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Va?
- In Spain, the national register counted 91 people named Va, about 1 in 550 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Va?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaThe 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, “Va”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.