Vie
loc · Latin script
Meaning: To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
Vie is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 696 people, counted by SSB.
- NONorway1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 136K
- ARArgentina1 in 798K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
696 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Vîe in DZ Algeria.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vie is found
(measured from records)Vie 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.
696 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Vie 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.
In French, life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of vieō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-ocs, third-person singular present indicative of věděti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, third-person singular present indicative of viedä
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)- Henry Viéb. 1828FRFrench writer
- Jean-Émile Viéb. 1915FRFrench official (1915-2015)
- Michel Viéb. 1929FRFrench historian and japonologist
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Vie mean, and where does it come from?
- To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Vie?
- In Norway, the national register counted 696 people named Vie, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vie?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 696 people named Vie, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Algeria, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Vie most common?
- Vie is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Vie?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vieThe 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, “Vie” — ranked 1790th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.