Vinje
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vinje is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 739K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.3K
- FIFinland≈1 in 107K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vinje 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.
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aasmund Olavsson Vinjeb. 1818NONorwegian poet and journalist (1818–1870)
- Aasmund Halvorsen Vinjeb. 1851NONorwegian politician (1851–1917)
- Aad J. Vinjeb. 1857USAmerican judge (1857–1929)
- Torkell Vinjeb. 1879NONorwegian politician (1879-1955)
- Finn-Erik Vinjeb. 1936NONorwegian philologist
- Arne Vinjeb. 1943NONorwegian chess player
- Arne Vinjeb. 1951NONorwegian writer and politician
- Vetle Vinjeb. 1962NONorwegian rower and geophysicist
- Kristin Vinjeb. 1963NONorwegian politician
- Vebjørn Vinjeb. 1995NOassociation 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Vinje have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Vinje in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vinje.
- Where is Vinje most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vinje is densest in Norway — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vinje?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,368 people named Vinje, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vinje?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vinjeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Vinje”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.