Vīksna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fluttering elm (Ulmus laevis)
Vīksna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
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.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, 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 Viksna in LV Latvia, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 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)
fluttering elm (Ulmus laevis)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vīksna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #510 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Viksna | 39 |
| US United States | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 19M | listed | Viksna | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | 11 | Viksna | 22 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Viksna | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 5 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 2 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Vīksna 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 Latvian, Vairākas gobu ģints ("Ulmus") sugas, vasarzaļi koki ar lielu vainagu, Latvijā brīvā dabā tikai 1 suga
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (vidējciems) Balvu novadā 13 km no Balviem, pagasta centrs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Parastais skābardis ("Carpinus betula")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Parastā goba ("Ulmus glabra")
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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Vīksna mean, and where does it come from?
- fluttering elm (Ulmus laevis) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Vīksna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 393 people named Vīksna in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viksna.
- How common is the name Vīksna?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 8 people named Vīksna, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
- How common is Vīksna compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Vīksna is the 510th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vīksna?
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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%C4%ABksnaThe 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, “Vīksna” — the 510th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.