Vianney

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Vianney is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Vivianus via French form, from vivus 'alive'.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • VEVenezuela1 in 32K
  • USUnited States1 in 132K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,500 people, est.

Sources
196 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Latin Vivianus via French form, from vivus 'alive'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vianney 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.

Where Vianney is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈9,500 est.≈1 in 11K1Vianney7
FR France—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 19K4.9KVianney5
US United States—2,5151 in 132K2.3KVianney196
CM Cameroon—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 16K—Vianney10
VE Venezuela—9001 in 32K900Vianney17
CR Costa Rica#3264651 in 11K465Vianney19

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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)

Vianney is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Vïanney

50 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)

Vianney 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 French, French surname and given name from place-name Vienne; popularized by Saint John Vianney.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Patronymic name from Jean-Marie Vianney.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Patronymique francais, associe a Jean-Marie Vianney; origine du nom de famille incertaine.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

190019201940196019802000Vianney Décarie, b. 1917John O'Loughlin, b. 1948Vianney Lebasque, b. 1953Vianney Piveteau, b. 1953Vianney Mulliez, b. 1963Vianney Dequiedt, b. 1975Vianney Lebouteiller, b. 1979Vianney Mabidé, b. 1988Vianney, b. 1991Chris Bedia, b. 1996

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 45 sources across 28 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

What does the name Vianney mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Vivianus via French form, from vivus 'alive'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Vianney a male or female name?
Vianney is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Vianney have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Vianney in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vianney.
How common is the name Vianney?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,515 people named Vianney in 2020, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
How common is Vianney compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Vianney is the 326th most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.

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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, “Vianney” — the 326th most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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