Vargo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vargo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 18th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 43K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 86K
- IEIreland≈1 in 19K
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
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, 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)
Vargo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Vargo | 2 |
| US United States | — | 7,787 | 1 in 43K | 8K | Vargo | 360 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Vargo | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Vargo | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 86K | 23 | Vargo | 44 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Vargo | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Vargo | 3 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #18 | — | — | — | Vargo | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Vargo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, stake used for building a wattled fence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of vargus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, genitive singular of vargas
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)
- Ed Vargob. 1928USAmerican baseball umpire
- Ken Vargob. 1934USAmerican gridiron football player (born c. 1934)
- Larry Vargob. 1939USAmerican football player (born 1939)
- Peter Vargob. 1941ATAustrian footballer
- Mark Vargob. 1954USvisual effects artist and cinematographer
- John VargoNZresilience researcher
- Lauren VargoNZearth scientist at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand
- Bruce VargoAmerican army commander
- John Vargoresearcher and gastroenterologist
- Edward L VargoUSresearcher
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8K | #4,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.8K | #4,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7K | #4,859 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 23 | #82,763 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Vargo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Vargo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vargo.
- How common is the name Vargo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,787 people named Vargo in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Vargo compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Vargo is the 18th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vargoThe 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, “Vargo” — the 18th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.