Váz
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Váz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Cape Verde it is the 13th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 715(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 719
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 715 (inferred from the name graph)
179,422 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vaz in BR Brazil, PT Portugal, UY Uruguay and 3 more.
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)
Ciudad de Mexico, Amsterdam, Curaçao, Jamaica, Rowe's Corner, Spanishtown, Dutch Brazil, Beja, Mesão Frio, Covilhã, Trancoso, Olivença, Porto, Monsaraz, Braga, Barcelos, Guarda, Alvorge, Castelo Novo, Alpedrinha, Idanha-a-Nova, Penamacor, São Vicente, Faial, Portugal, Mariana, Sobará, Minas Gerais, Campo Maior, Bahia, Brasil, Amberes, Nantes, Flandres, Ferrara, Valladolid; hypocoristic of Vasco
Sources 2
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Váz 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 | #148 | 179,422 | 1 in 1.2K | 179K | Vaz | 201 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | — | 20 |
| PT Portugal | #62 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 715 | — | Vaz | 157 |
| AO Angola | #90 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Vaz | 40 |
| IN India | — | 5,501 | 1 in 241K | 5.5K | Vaz | 92 |
| UY Uruguay | #125 | 4,709 | 1 in 719 | 4.7K | Vaz | 42 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 45K | — | 16 |
| CV Cape Verde | #13 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 5 | Vaz | 28 |
179,422 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)
Váz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, frame, framework
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
- In which country does Váz have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 179 thousand people named Váz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaz.
- How common is the name Váz?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 179,422 people named Váz, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Váz compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Váz is the 148th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Váz?
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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%A1zThe 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, “Váz” — the 148th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.