Viner
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘wine-grower, vigneron’, from Anglo-Norman viner.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 3.2Kas וינר
- USUnited States1 in 23Kas Weiner
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Viner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
14,208 named Weiner, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled וינר in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, ויינר in LV Latvia, UZ Uzbekistan and Weiner in RO Romania.
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)
‘wine-grower, vigneron’, from Anglo-Norman viner
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14,208as Weiner | 1 in 23K | 15K | Viner | 246 |
| IL Israel | #133 | 2,739as וינר | 1 in 3.2K | 2.7K | וינר | 47 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | ויינר | 3 |
| RO Romania | #333 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Weiner | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 1.6K | Viner | 137 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 1 | ויינר | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | #927 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | וינר | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Viner | 19 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 36 | — | — |
14,208 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling weiner. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Viner is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A winegrower.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from OFr vignour, vigneur, vigneour / AFr viner ‘vine-grower, vine-dresser’; first attested Robert le Vinnur 1207 Cur (Huntingdonshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In French, to add alcohol to a wine to conserve it, in order to transport it without it deteriorating; fortify
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of vin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, wine
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)
- Charles Vinerb. 1812GBBritish philatelist (1812-1906)
- Horace Vinerb. 1880GBWelsh footballer (1880-1955)
- Jacob Vinerb. 1892CACanadian economist (1892–1970)
- Vera Rozankab. 1893UAnot in their usual nameYiddish Theatre actress
- Aleksandr Vinerb. 1896UASoviet Russian dramaturge and director (1896–1984)
- Ian Vinerb. 1933AUformer Australian politician
- Michael Vinerb. 1944USAmerican record producer and book publisher
- Irina Viner-Usmanovab. 1948RURussian rhythmic gymnastics coach
- Rakefet Viner Omerb. 1965ILartist (born 1965)
- Katharine Vinerb. 1971GBBritish journalist and playwright (born 1971)
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1 | #103,766 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Viner mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘wine-grower, vigneron’, from Anglo-Norman viner Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Viner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Weiner, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Viner?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Viner, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Viner compared with other names?
- In Israel, Viner is the 133rd most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vinerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Viner” — the 133rd most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.