Vickery
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vickery is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Middle English vicarie ‘vicar’, from Latin vicarius, meaning ‘parish priest, vicar’.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
- USUnited States1 in 37K
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
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishvicarie(measured from records)
- Latinvicarius(measured from records)
from Middle English vicarie ‘vicar’, from Latin vicarius, meaning ‘parish priest, vicar’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vickery 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 | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Vickery | 4 |
| US United States | — | 8,874 | 1 in 37K | 8.9K | Vickery | 367 |
| GH Ghana | #698 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Vickery | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 4.1K | Vickery | 173 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Vickery | 141 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Vickery | 30 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Vickery | 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)
Vickery is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, This English name is quite distinct from MacVicker, though ultimately of the same derivation, viz. Latin vicarius, agent. Since its introduction in the mid-seventeenth century it has become fairly numerous in Co. Cork but is rare elsewhere
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Alice Vickeryb. 1844GBphysician
- Rosa Olga Sansomb. 1900NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand teacher, museum director, botanist, broadcaster, writer (1900–1989)
- Joyce Winifred Vickeryb. 1908AUAustralian botanist, botanical collector, agrostologist, and conservationist (1908-1979)
- Brian Campbell Vickeryb. 1918GBBritish information theorist (1918–2009)
- Donald M. Vickeryb. 1944USAmerican physician
- John Vickeryb. 1950USAmerican actor
- Amanda Vickeryb. 1962GBBritish historian
- Tim Vickeryb. 1965GBFootball commentator based in Brazil
- Phil Vickeryb. 1976GBEnglish rugby union footballer
- Sachia Vickeryb. 1995USAmerican tennis player
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.9K | #3,664 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.9K | #4,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.5K | #4,075 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.1K | #1,933 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Vickery mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle English vicarie ‘vicar’, from Latin vicarius, meaning ‘parish priest, vicar’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Vickery have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Vickery in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vickery.
- How common is the name Vickery?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,874 people named Vickery in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Vickery compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Vickery is the 698th most common surname of 36,883 surnames 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, “Vickery” — the 698th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.