Vanik
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈvɑnɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vanik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- AMArmenia≈1 in 962as Վանիկ
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 956K
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 Vanik 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.
- Armenia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 956K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Վանիկ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Վանիկ in AM Armenia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM Armenia | #205 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 962 | — | Վանիկ | 24 |
| GE Georgia | — | 276as ვანიკ | 1 in 14K | 276 | — | 11 |
| US United States | — | 167 | 1 in 2M | 182 | Vanik | 98 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Vanik | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 27 | 1 in 1.4M | 27 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Vanik | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 956K | — | Vanik | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)
Vanik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, garland, wreath
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)
- Milford Vanikb. 1906USAmerican pilot
- Charles Vanikb. 1913USAmerican politician (1913-2007)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 182 | #93,427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 172 | #109,465 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 166 | #42,763 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 165 | #107,669 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 27 | #5,287 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #5,309 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #212,604 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #409,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #42,763 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Vanik?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈvɑnɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vanik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Վանիկ in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vanik?
- In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Vanik in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Vanik compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Vanik is the 205th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vanik?
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/vanikThe 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, “Vanik” — the 205th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.