Vanes
given name · Latin script
Meaning: plural of van
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/banes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vanes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 897K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 191K
- ITItaly≈1 in 199K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 191K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of van
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Vanes | 30 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 272K | listed | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 236 | 1 in 897K | 236 | Vanes | 32 |
| US United States | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | 553 | Vanes | 27 |
| CO Colombia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 876K | — | Vanes | 10 |
| BE Belgium | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 52 | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | 11 | 1 in 191K | 11 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 11 | 1 in 384K | 11 | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the athias-prenoms-2007 register. 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)
Vanes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, variant of Van; also linked to Venus
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In Catalan, feminine plural of va
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)
- Vanes Poluzzib. 1961ITItalian chemist (born 1961)
- Vanes Martirosyanb. 1986USArmenian-American boxer
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 236 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 236 | #22,938 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 204 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 156 | #16,660 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 144 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 134 | #22,604 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 106 | #17,944 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #22,604 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 60 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 39 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Vanes mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of van Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vanes?
- A machine transcription gives /banes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Vanes a male or female name?
- Vanes 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 Vanes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 314 people named Vanes in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vanes.
- Where is Vanes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vanes is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 191 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vanes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 236 people named Vanes in 2022, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vanes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vanesThe 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, “Vanes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.