Viến

given name · Latin script

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

Viến is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 266K
  • SESweden1 in 319K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,249 people, 2020

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vien in 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)

recorded in French

dérivé de Vivien, du nom latin Vīviānus, dérivé de vīvus « vivant »

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Viến 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 Viến is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,2491 in 266K1.1KVien75
SE Sweden321 in 319K32—3
NL Netherlands121 in 1.4M10—5
PL Poland61 in 6.4M7——
FI Finland51 in 1.1M40——
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

1,249 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Frequently asked questions

Is Viến a male or female name?
Viến 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.
In which country does Viến have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Viến, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vien.
Where is Viến most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viến is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Viến?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,249 people named Viến in 2020, about 1 in 266 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Viến”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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