Viéitez

surname · Latin script

Viéitez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the medieval form Bieytes, from the proper noun Bieito (“Benedict”) + the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Benedict".

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 36K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 339K
  • UYUruguay1 in 38K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,393 people

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

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 Vieitez in ES Spain, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 2 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)

From the medieval form Bieytes, from the proper noun Bieito (“Benedict”) + the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Benedict".

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Viéitez 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 Viéitez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,3931 in 36K1.4KVieitez78
AR Argentina1341 in 339K134Vieitez35
UY Uruguay891 in 38K89Vieitez12
US United States≈88 est.≈1 in 3.8MlistedVieitez37
VE Venezuela≈84 est.≈1 in 343K—Vieitez8
CH Switzerland191 in 442K19—2

1,393 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Viéitez is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vieitez

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Vieitez, Vieítez

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vieitez

  • Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Vieitez

1 further group 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Viéitez 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 Galician, a surname transferred from the given name

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Ignacio Vieitez Tapia, b. 1817Ernesto Viéitez Cortizo, b. 1921Juan Oliveira, b. 1928Virxilio Viéitez, b. 1930Lois Pena Vieites, b. 1949Adrián Viéitez, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

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 Viéitez mean, and where does it come from?
From the medieval form Bieytes, from the proper noun Bieito (“Benedict”) + the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Benedict". Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Viéitez have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Viéitez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vieitez.
Where is Viéitez most common?
Viéitez is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Viéitez?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,393 people named Viéitez, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.

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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, “Viéitez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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