Vizier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Vizier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. Vizier is also written วิเชียร in Thai.
- THThailand≈1 in 770as วิเชียร(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 351Kas Wichien
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.7Mfew recordsas Vichien
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 Vizier itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 765 (inferred from the name graph)
≈94,000 named วิเชียร, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as วิเชียร
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vizier in other scripts: Thai and Latin
(measured from records)17 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wichian in SG Singapore, SE Sweden, วิเชียร in TH Thailand, Vichien in US United States and Wichien in AU Australia.
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)A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vizier 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #68 | ≈94,000 est. | ≈1 in 765 | register #367,921 | วิเชียร | 103 |
| US United States | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 162 | Vichien | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Wichan | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Wichien | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Wichian | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Wichian | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1as Wichien | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Vizier is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
vizir, ministro
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Dutch, visor, a removable protective guard on a (knight's) helmet
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vizier mean, and where does it come from?
- A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Vizier?
- In the etymology graph, Vizir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Vizier?
- Mondonomo estimates about 94 thousand people named วิเชียร in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Philippines, Australia and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vizier?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Wichien in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
- How common is Vizier compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Vizier is the 68th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vizier?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vizierThe 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, “Vizier” — the 68th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.