Vere
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ver, Manche/Calvados; first attested Alberic de Ver 1086 DB (Ess) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/beɾe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Vere is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 80K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈970 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Vere
- Spanish:/beɾe/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Ver, Manche/Calvados; first attested Alberic de Ver 1086 DB (Ess)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vere is found
(measured from records)Vere 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Vere | 20 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 404 | Vere | 115 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Vere | 19 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 3 | — | 3 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 36 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 1 | Vere | 70 |
| US United States | 126 | 1 in 2.6M | 168 | Vere | 173 |
| NO Norway | 68 | 1 in 80K | 68 | — | 5 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Vere is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: transferred use of the surname, which originated as a Norman French baronial name, from any of the numerous places in northern France so called from the Gaulish element ver(n) alder.
as a word
In pi, locative singular of vera (“hatred”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, vocative of văr (“male cousin”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, singular present subjunctive of veren
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person plural present of veriti
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)- Francis Vereb. 1560GBEnglish soldier
- Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilburyb. 1565GBEnglish Baron
- Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxfordb. 1627GBRoyalist during the English Civil War
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)Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vere mean, and where does it come from?
- from Ver, Manche/Calvados; first attested Alberic de Ver 1086 DB (Ess) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Vere?
- In Spanish /beɾe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vere?
- Mondonomo estimates about 970 people named Vere in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vere. After it come United Kingdom, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vere?
- In the United States, the national register counted 126 people named Vere in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vereThe 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, “Vere”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.