Vídal
surname · Latin script
Vídal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 42nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Latin vītālis (“vital; life-giving”). Vídal is also written Видаль in Cyrillic.
- DMDominica1 in 185(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 450
- UYUruguay≈1 in 640
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 Vídal 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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- 1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)
≈87,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vídal in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vidal in CL Chile, MX Mexico, ES Spain 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)From Latin vītālis (“vital; life-giving”).
Cited for this meaning 9
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vídal is found
(measured from records)Vídal 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 | — | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 2.1K | — | 5 |
| MX Mexico | #252 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 1.3K | Vidal | 201 |
| ES Spain | #58 | 67,572 | 1 in 740 | 68K | Vidal | 224 |
| CL Chile | #56 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 445 | — | Vidal | 146 |
| FR France | — | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 3.4K | Vidal | 7 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Vidal | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | #42 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 637 | — | Vidal | 70 |
| DM Dominica | — | 402 | 1 in 185 | 402 | — | — |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vídal mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin vītālis (“vital; life-giving”). Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 7 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vídal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Vídal in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Mexico, Spain, Chile and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Vídal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vídal is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 185 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vídal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 67,572 people named Vídal, about 1 in 740 residents.
- How common is Vídal compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Vídal is the 42nd most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vídal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%ADdalThe 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, “Vídal” — ranked 5830th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.