Vân

given name · Latin script

Meaning: grain, vein

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/vəŋ˧˧/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vân is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 31K
  • ARArgentina1 in 5.4K

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.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈64,000 people, est.

Sources
268 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Van in VN Vietnam, US United States.

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)

grain, vein

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vân 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.

Where Vân is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#9≈64,000 est.≈1 in 1.5KlistedVan268
US United States—10,7981 in 31K24KVan202
AR Argentina—8,4291 in 5.4K8.4K——
NO Norway—4801 in 11K1.5K—17
IN India—3971 in 3.3M397—13
DK Denmark—1091 in 54K930——

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: the vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vân is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Van, Vận, Văn, Vạn, Vǎn

  • English surname93 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Van, Văn, Վան, Vaen, 'Van

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Van, Vận, Vấn, Vån, Ṽăñ

  • French surname47 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Netherlands, South Africa

    Languages: French, Portuguese, Catalan

    Also written Van, Văn, Van', Vän, Vãn

  • Khmer surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Cambodia, United Kingdom

    Also written Van, Văn, Vàn, Ván, Vằn

  • Polish surname35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Van, Wan, Văn, Wań, Váň

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Tran Cao Van, b. 1866Tô Ngọc Vân, b. 1906Cẩm Vân, b. 1959Hồng Vân, b. 1966Vân Khánh, b. 1978Ngô Thanh Vân, b. 1979Mai Thiên Vân, b. 1982Phi Thanh Vân, b. 1982Ốc Thanh Vân, b. 1984Châu Tuyết Vân, b. 1990

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Vân
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VN VietnamVietnamese given names (Kaggle)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

Is Vân a male or female name?
Vân 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.
What does the name Vân mean, and where does it come from?
grain, vein Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Vân?
A machine transcription gives /vəŋ˧˧/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
In which country does Vân have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Vân in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled van.
How common is the name Vân?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,798 people named Vân in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Vân compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Vân is the 9th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Vân” — the 9th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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