Velin

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Velin is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

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)

Velin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Velin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—57Velin2
FI Finland—421—7
SE Sweden—388—16
US United States—215—117
DK Denmark—59——

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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Velin is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Vélin

  • Bulgarian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Russia

    Also written Велин, Вѐлин

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Ecuador

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Velín, Veliñ, Vélin

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Velín

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Velín

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Велин, Велін, Velyn, Velín

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Vélin, Velín

26 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)

Velin 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 Romanian, vellum (a writing paper of very high quality)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, inflection of velar:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, VELÍN, -Ă, veline, adj. (În sintagmele) Hârtie velină sau carton velin = hârtie sau carton de calitate foarte bună, de culoare foarte albă, preparate dintr-o pastă fină.

    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)

19201940196019802000Bende Velin, b. 1934Kirsten Velin, b. 1944Mari Velin, b. 1956Jari-Pekka Velin, b. 1962Nathalie Velin, b. 1963Thomas Velin, b. 1975Teppo Velin, b. 1980Cecilia Velin, b. 1990

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Velin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—421#4,029
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—388#2,354
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020215#91,884
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010184#98,553
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000178#95,091
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197179—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196174—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195172—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194164—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198161—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—59#9,063

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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

How do you pronounce Velin?
A machine transcription gives /vəlɛ̃/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Velin have the most bearers?
Velin is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled velin.

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The 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, “Velin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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