Vanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any orchid of the genus Vanda
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Slovenia (SURS, 2025): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 43 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/bɐ̃dɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Vanda is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 1.6K
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3K
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 Vanda 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
63,373 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Any orchid of the genus Vanda.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vanda 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 | #414 | 63,373 | 1 in 3.3K | 77K | Vanda | 119 |
| PT Portugal | #161 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Vanda | 105 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 6,492 | 1 in 1.6K | 6.5K | — | 1 |
| AO Angola | #194 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Vanda | 29 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Vanda | 51 |
| LV Latvia | — | 992 | 1 in 1.9K | 992 | Vanda | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 505 | 1 in 4.2K | 505 | — | 2 |
63,373 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Vanda 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 Swedish, Vanda har bl.a. föreslagits vara ett polskt namn med oviss betydelse. Det var relativt vanligt i Sverige under 1800-talet.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
[Ignoto]
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Russian, Vasiuk Vanda, peasant of the Voskresen'e parish. 1539.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In pi, second-person singular imperative active of vandati (“to adore”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to do something with care and effort, to take pains over something
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)- Wanda Landowskab. 1879FRnot in their usual namePolish-French harpsichordist (1879–1959)
- Wanda Wasilewskab. 1905PLnot in their usual namePolish writer (1905-1964)
- Wanda Wiłkomirskab. 1929PLnot in their usual namePolish-Australian classical violinist and academic teacher (1929--2018)
- Wanda Venthamb. 1935GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress
- Wanda Jacksonb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
- Wanda Błaszkiewicz-Rutkiewiczb. 1943PLnot in their usual namePolish mountain climber (1943-1992)
- Wanda Vázquez Garcedb. 1960USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican politician and attorney (born 1960)
- Liob. 1962PTnot in their usual nameBelgian actress and singer
- Wanda Sykesb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian, writer, actress and voice artist
- Wanda Perdelwitzb. 1984DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress (1984–2025)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)83 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 77K | #571 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 63K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 63K | #487 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6.5K | #238 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 3.2K | #262 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 992 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 984 | #423 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 505 | #300 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 498 | #605 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 272 | #487 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- Is Vanda a male or female name?
- Vanda is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (IBGE): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Slovenia (SURS, 2025): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What are other forms of the name Vanda?
- In the etymology graph, Wanda, Lawanda and Vonda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vanda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 63 thousand people named Vanda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanda.
- What does the name Vanda mean, and where does it come from?
- Any orchid of the genus Vanda. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vanda?
- In Portuguese /bɐ̃dɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Vanda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63,373 people named Vanda in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Vanda compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vanda is the 414th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vanda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vandaThe 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, “Vanda” — the 414th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.