Vanir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɐ̃iɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vanir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 43K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
- RURussia≈1 in 4.8Mas Ванир
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 Vanir 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 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
4,874 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ванир 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)
The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanir 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.
4,874 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Vanir 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 English, Scandinavian fertility gods
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.7K | #3,062 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.8K | #1,777 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.3K | #2,780 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.9K | #2,450 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #2,780 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 1.4K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vanir mean, and where does it come from?
- The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vanir?
- A machine transcription gives /bɐ̃iɾ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Vanir a male or female name?
- Vanir 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 Vanir have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Vanir, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vanir most common?
- Vanir is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vanir?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,874 people named Vanir in 2022, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vanir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vanirThe 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, “Vanir”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.