Vaden
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vaden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 103K(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 6.6K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 17K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,222 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Benin, 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vaden 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,222 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Vaden | 280 |
| BJ Benin | #295 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Vaden | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Vaden | 14 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Vaden | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 180K | 2 | Vaden | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 76 | 1 in 73K | 76 | — | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | — | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Vaden | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Vaden | 3 |
3,222 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Vaden 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.
In Swedish, definite singular of vad c (“calf (of the leg); trawl”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of vad
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)
- Stephen Vadenb. 1982USGeneral Counsel of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
- Robert Vadenb. 1985USAmerican basketball player (born 1985)
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,006 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,288 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 43 | #26,263 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Vaden have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Vaden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaden.
- How common is the name Vaden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,222 people named Vaden in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Vaden compared with other names?
- In Benin, Vaden is the 295th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vaden?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vadenThe 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, “Vaden” — the 295th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.