Viorel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: violet-colored
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/viorel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Viorel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 480(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 147Kas Виорел
- MDMoldova1 in 360
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 Viorel 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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 360 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Виорел in RU Russia.
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)
violet-colored
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Viorel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #490 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 480 | 141K | Viorel | 46 |
| MD Moldova | #439 | 9,352 | 1 in 360 | 9.4K | Viorel | 16 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Viorel | 24 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,036 | 1 in 25K | 2.1K | Viorel | 21 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Виорел | 101 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Viorel | 12 |
| IS Iceland | — | 24 | 1 in 15K | 24 | — | — |
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: DEPABD — name-day population snapshot; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Viorel Hrebenciucb. 1953ROMember of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
- Viorel Năstaseb. 1953RORomanian footballer
- Viorel Manoleb. 1957ROvolleyball player
- Viorel Cibotarub. 1958MDMoldovan politician, former political analyst and journalist
- Mihai Fiforb. 1970ROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician
- Viorel Moldovanb. 1972RORomanian footballer
- Viorel Talapanb. 1972RORomanian rower
- Viorel Iordăchescub. 1977MDMoldovan chess grandmaster
- Viorel Frunzăb. 1979MDMoldovan footballer
- Viorel Nebunuactor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2019 | 141K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2019 | 141K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 9.4K | #110 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #736 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #1,711 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 24 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Viorel mean, and where does it come from?
- violet-colored Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Viorel?
- A machine transcription gives /viorel/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- Is Viorel a male or female name?
- Viorel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Viorel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Viorel in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viorel.
- Where is Viorel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Viorel is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 360 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Viorel?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 9,352 people named Viorel, about 1 in 360 residents.
- How common is Viorel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Viorel is the 490th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Viorel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viorelThe 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, “Viorel” — the 490th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.