Vikan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɪkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vikan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 599K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 93M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 599K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vikan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 599K | 1.7K | Vikan | 52 |
| US United States | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 93M | listed | — | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | — | 2 | Vikan | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 9 | — | 2 |
| IN India | — | — | 2 | — | — |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Vikan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, definite nominative singular of vika
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of vika
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of vika
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)
- Johan A. Vikanb. 1912NONorwegian politician (1912-1997)
- Hermann Vikanb. 1930NONorwegian athletics competitor
- Gary Vikanb. 1946USart historian and museum director (b. 1946)
- Steinar Vikanb. 1960NONorwegian guitarist
- Line Vikanb. 1993NONorwegian association football player
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1983 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1964 | 2 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #73,247 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1971 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1969 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 1 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1961 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Vikan?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪkən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Vikan a male or female name?
- Vikan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Vikan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9 people named Vikan in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vikan.
- How common is the name Vikan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9 people in Norway have Vikan as their first given name, about 1 in 599 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Vikan?
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/vikanThe 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, “Vikan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.