Viesturs

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Viesturs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 783(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 39K
  • DKDenmark1 in 534K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

2,403 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 783 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ViestursLatin(measured from records)
ВиестурсCyrillic(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Viesturs 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 Viesturs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia2,4031 in 7832.4KViesturs9
SE Sweden191 in 537K19——
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——
IS Iceland91 in 39K9——
PL Poland61 in 6.4M6——

2,403 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Viestürs

27 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Viesturs Boka, b. 1948Viesturs Vecgrāvis, b. 1948Imants Lieģis, b. 1955Uldis Viesturs Sprudzs, b. 1956Viesturs Jansons, b. 1958Viesturs Meijers, b. 1967Viestur Kairish, b. 1971Zuarguss Zarmass, b. 1973Viesturs Ķerus, b. 1984

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 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Viesturs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.4K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.4K#227
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19#25,650
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202012—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201912—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#6,531
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201810—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201710—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201610—
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20266#16,151
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#17,365

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Viesturs mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Is Viesturs a male or female name?
Viesturs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Viesturs have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Viesturs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled viesturs.
Where is Viesturs most common?
Viesturs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 783 people carrying it.
How common is the name Viesturs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 2,403 people named Viesturs, about 1 in 783 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, “Viesturs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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