Vieru

surname · Latin script

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

Vieru is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: slope, hillside.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 31K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 83K
  • ESSpain1 in 242K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

207 people

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

slope, hillside

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vieru 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 Vieru is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2071 in 242K207Vieru20
FI Finland1821 in 31K182—1
PL Poland731 in 524K49——
DK Denmark711 in 83K71——
SE Sweden381 in 268K38—1
CH Switzerland191 in 442K19——

207 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Виеру, Віеру

46 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)

Vieru 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 Slovak, accusative singular of viera

    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)

19201940196019802000Anatol Vieru, b. 1926Sorin Vieru, b. 1934Grigore Vieru, b. 1935Andrei Vieru, b. 1958Ioan Vieru, b. 1962Călin Vieru, b. 1965Ioan Vieru, b. 1979Natalia Vieru, b. 1989Denis Vieru, 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 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Vieru
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—207#16,158
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—207#16,081
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—182#8,057
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—71#7,687
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—67—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202649—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—49#50,843
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—38#15,635
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202624—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—24#81,540
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202419#37,994

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Vieru mean, and where does it come from?
slope, hillside Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Vieru have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 207 people named Vieru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vieru.
Where is Vieru most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vieru is densest in Finland — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vieru?
In Spain, the national register counted 207 people named Vieru, about 1 in 242 thousand residents.

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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, “Vieru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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