Vián
surname · Latin script
Vián is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Venetian variant of the personal name Viviano.
- NONorway1 in 15K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 122K
- USUnited States1 in 509K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
653 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vian in PY Paraguay, ES Spain, US United States and 2 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 a Venetian variant of the personal name Viviano.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vián 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 653 | 1 in 509K | 689 | Vian | 50 |
| ES Spain | — | 409 | 1 in 122K | 409 | Vian | 50 |
| NO Norway | — | 358 | 1 in 15K | 358 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 87 | 1 in 523K | 87 | Vian | 28 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Vian | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 3 |
| PY Paraguay | #813 | — | — | — | Vian | 17 |
653 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Vián mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Venetian variant of the personal name Viviano. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Vián have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 653 people named Vián, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vian.
- Where is Vián most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vián is densest in Norway — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vián?
- In the United States, the national register counted 653 people named Vián in 2010, about 1 in 509 thousand residents.
- How common is Vián compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Vián is the 813th most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vi%C3%A1nThe 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, “Vián” — the 813th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.