Vie

loc · Latin script

Meaning: To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Vie is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 7.9K
  • DKDenmark1 in 136K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

696 people

Sources
136 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Vîe in DZ Algeria.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vie 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.

Where Vie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway6961 in 7.9K696—18
US United States2071 in 1.6M230Vie136
DZ Algeria≈60 est.≈1 in 722K—Vîe5
AR Argentina571 in 798K57——
BR Brazil451 in 4.7M45—1
DK Denmark431 in 136K43——

696 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname34 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, Mexico

    Also written Vié, Vïê, Viĕ, Vīë, Vïĕ

  • Indonesian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria

    Also written Vié, Vïë, Víë, Vîë, Vìê

  • a separate name45 spellings in the group

    Also written Việ, Vîê, Vié, Vię, Vīĕ

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vie is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlw-ocs, third-person singular present indicative of věděti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, third-person singular present indicative of viedä

    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)

18001850190019502000Pere Grahit i Vié, b. 1816Henry Vié, b. 1828Henri Vié, b. 1867Jean-Émile Vié, b. 1915Michel Vié, b. 1929Pere Alberch, b. 1954Patrick Vié, b. 1959Nicole Vie, b. 1960Anne Kristin Vie, b. 1974Blandine Vié, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Vie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—696#1,790
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2023352—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2022351—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2021351—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2024350—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025348—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2020346—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2019344—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2018338—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020230#87,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010207#89,403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000176#96,033

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Vie mean, and where does it come from?
To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Vie?
In Norway, the national register counted 696 people named Vie, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
In which country does Vie have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 696 people named Vie, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vie most common?
Vie is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.

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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, “Vie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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