Vane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Different form of Fane
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 18K
- BRBrazil1 in 438K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Different form of Fane.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vane 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #875 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Vane | 33 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Vane | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 9 | Vane | 52 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Vane | 20 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Vane | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 483 | 1 in 438K | 483 | Vane | 55 |
| UY Uruguay | #533 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Vane | 10 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Vane | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)
Vane 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 English, Sir John R., English biochemist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from the marsh or fen
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English From The Marsh Or Fen
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In pi, locative singular of vana (“forest; desire”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of fane (“flag, vane”)
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)
- Vane St Johnb. 1839GBEnglish writer of popular fiction (1838-1911)
- Vane Featherstoneb. 1864GBEnglish actress (1864-1948)
- Vane Pennellb. 1876GBBritish real tennis player (1876–1938)
- Frank 'Checker' Hughesb. 1894AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer and coach
- Sir Mark Milbank, 4th Baronetb. 1907GBnot in their usual namecricketer (1907-1984)
- Vane Borb. 1908RSpainter (1908-1993)
- George Hay-Drummondb. 1910GBnot in their usual name(1910-1984)
- Vane Ivanovićb. 1913HRYugoslav athlete and diplomat (1913–1999)
- Frank Hughesb. 1921AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer, born 1921
- Henry Vane Edenb. 1958GB(born 1958)
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 43 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikipedia surname 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 Vane mean, and where does it come from?
- Different form of Fane. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Is Vane a male or female name?
- Vane is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Vane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Vane in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vane.
- How common is the name Vane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 483 people named Vane in 2022, about 1 in 438 thousand residents.
- How common is Vane compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Vane is the 875th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vaneThe 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, “Vane” — the 875th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.