Viéra
surname · Latin script
Viéra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věra, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros (“true”).
- UYUruguay1 in 107(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.8K
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)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107 (inferred from the name graph)
127,404 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Viera in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, PE Peru 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)- Proto-Slavic*věra(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*weh₁ros“true”(measured from records)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věra, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros (“true”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Viéra 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 | #765 | 127,404 | 1 in 1.7K | 127K | Viera | 106 |
| UY Uruguay | #21 | 31,736 | 1 in 107 | 32K | Viera | 79 |
| AR Argentina | #389 | 15,818 | 1 in 2.9K | 16K | Viera | 80 |
| US United States | — | 11,861 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Viera | 293 |
| PE Peru | #408 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Viera | 75 |
| SV El Salvador | #325 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Viera | 34 |
127,404 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, 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 Viéra mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věra, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros (“true”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Viéra have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 127 thousand people named Viéra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viera.
- Where is Viéra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viéra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 107 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Viéra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 127,404 people named Viéra, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Viéra compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Viéra is the 765th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vi%C3%A9raThe 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, “Viéra” — the 765th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.