Vēdzele

surname · Latin script

Meaning: burbot (two fish species)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Vēdzele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈26 people, est.

Record sources
5 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, 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:

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)

burbot (two fish species)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Vēdzele 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 Vēdzele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia≈26 est.≈1 in 72K—Vēdzele5
EE Estonia——listed——

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.

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)

Vēdzele is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Vedzele

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vedzele

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Vēdzele 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 Latvian, Mencveidīgo zivju kārtas mencu dzimtas suga ("Lota lota"), saldūdens zivs, kam ir plankumains, ļumīgs ķermenis, gara vienlaidu muguras spura un kas barību aktīvi meklē naktīs

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Abavas kreisā krasta pieteka Tukuma novadā, garums - 35 km, kritums - 70 m, vidustecē un lejtecē izteikti līkumaina; Kukša; Kukšupe; Vēdzeļupe; augštecē Zemīte, Zilupīte

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, lamuvārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Vēdzele under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Vēdzele mean, and where does it come from?
burbot (two fish species) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Vēdzele have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 people named Vēdzele in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vēdzele.
How common is the name Vēdzele?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 people in Latvia have Vēdzele as their first surname, about 1 in 72 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Vēdzele”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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