Vrabie

surname · Latin script

Meaning: sparrow

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/vrabije/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vrabie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 262K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 489K
  • PLPoland1 in 628K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

191 people

Record sources
53 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 262K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

sparrow

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Vrabie 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 Vrabie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
ES Spain1911 in 262K191—
PL Poland611 in 628K38—
DK Denmark121 in 489K12—
NO Norway81 in 683K8—
SE Sweden71 in 1.5M7—

191 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Vrabie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Врабие, Врабіе

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Vrabié

42 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)

Vrabie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, VRÁBIE, vrăbii, s. f. Pasăre mică cu penele de culoare brună împestrițate cu negru, cu pântecele cenușiu, cu ciocul scurt, conic și cu coada trunchiată; vrăbete (Passer domesticus). ◊ Expr. A avea minte de vrabie, se spune despre o persoană lipsită de judecată. Vrabia-i tot pui (și ea moare de bătrână), se spune despre o persoană care pare mai tânără decât este.

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)
19001920194019601980Olga Vrabie, b. 1902Gheorghe Vrabie, b. 1908Gheorghe Vrabie, b. 1939Corneliu-Dan Vrabie, b. 1954Valentin Vrabie, b. 1966

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)
FormalStimate domnule Vrabie,Dear Mr Vrabie, (English)
InformalSalut Vrabie,Hi Vrabie, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Vrabie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—191#17,181
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—191#17,106
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202638—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—38#60,292
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#83,689
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—12#35,146
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#59,455
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#45,777

Reference works 1

  • 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 Vrabie mean, and where does it come from?
sparrow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Vrabie?
A machine transcription gives /vrabije/ (IPA) for Romanian.
In which country does Vrabie have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 191 people named Vrabie, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vrabie most common?
Vrabie is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 262 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vrabie?
In Spain, the national register counted 191 people named Vrabie, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.

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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, “Vrabie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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