Vá
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to sew, to mend (to repair a tear in clothing)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vá is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 366K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 928K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 366K (inferred from the name graph)
909 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Va in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia.
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)
to sew, to mend (to repair a tear in clothing)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vá 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 | 909 | 1 in 366K | 475 | Va | 55 |
| BR Brazil | 70 | 1 in 3M | 755 | Va | 55 |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | 1 |
| CO Colombia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Va | 21 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 11 |
909 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Vá is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In non, first/third-person singular past active indicative of vega
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbj, to deny, to refute
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, danger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mkw, Aqui
as a wordApontamentos soltos da língua macúa
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 Vá mean, and where does it come from?
- to sew, to mend (to repair a tear in clothing) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Vá a male or female name?
- Vá is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Vá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 909 people named Vá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled va.
- Where is Vá most common?
- Vá is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 366 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 909 people named Vá in 2020, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A1The 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, “Vá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.