Vár
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vár is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse vár.
- FRFrance
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Var in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 1 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 Old Norse vár.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
- Nordic Names
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vár counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 38 | Var | 2 |
| US United States | — | 259 | Var | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Var | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | Var | 23 |
| IN India | — | 6.2K | — | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | 104 | — | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Vár 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 Hungarian, fortress, castle
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Hungarian, town, city
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Hungarian, castle
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Hungarian, castle, fortress
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, spring (season)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 104 | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | Fólkanavnalistin — official advisory list of given names (Navnanevndin) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vár mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse vár. Recorded by Wiktionary and Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian and 1 other source.
- Is Vár a male or female name?
- Vár 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 Vár have the most bearers?
- Vár is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled var.
What do you want to know about Vár?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%A1rThe 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, “Vár”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.