Вы
surname · Cyrillic script
Meaning: you (polite/pl)
Вы is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 27Kas Vy(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 54Kas Vy
- SESweden1 in 55Kas Vi
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 Вы 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
5,460 named Vy, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Vy in US United States, Ви in RU Russia and Vi in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)you (polite/pl)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Вы 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,460as Vy | 1 in 61K | 4.8K | Vy | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 185as Vi | 1 in 55K | 185 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 787K | — | Ви | 88 |
| BR Brazil | 130as Vi | 1 in 1.6M | 130 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 104as Vy | 1 in 54K | 271 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 42as Vi | 1 in 140K | 43 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 13as Vy | 1 in 27K | 13 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Vi | 6 |
5,460 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Вы 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 Russian, you (plural or formal singular)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rue, second-person singular formal, as well as second-person plural, nominative case:you
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Belarusian, you (plural or formal)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Вы mean, and where does it come from?
- you (polite/pl) Recorded by Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order.
- Which countries have the most people named Вы?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Vy, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, Russia, Brazil and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Вы?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,460 people named Vy in 2020, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Вы?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%B2%D1%8BThe 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, “Вы”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.