Vanė
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vanė is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *p.
- SISlovenia1 in 28K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 188K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
483 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vane in US United States, FR France, CG Congo - Brazzaville.
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)
- Middle Englishvane(measured from records)
- Old Englishfana“cloth“cloth, banner, flag”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*fanō(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*fanô(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂n-“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”(measured from records)
From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.
Sources 4
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vanė 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 483 | 1 in 438K | 483 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 685 | Vane | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 75 | 1 in 28K | 77 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Vane | 69 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #298 | — | — | — | Vane | 3 |
483 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vanė mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *p… Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Vanė have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 483 people named Vanė, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vanė most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vanė is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vanė?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 483 people named Vanė in 2022, about 1 in 438 thousand residents.
- How common is Vanė compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Vanė is the 298th most common given name of 363 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/van%C4%97The 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, “Vanė” — the 298th most common given name in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.