Vigan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Le vigan est une « espèce de gros drap (de la ville de Vigan) »

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

/vɪɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 174K
  • ALAlbania1 in 237K

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.

Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)

≈400 people, est.

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in French

Le vigan est une « espèce de gros drap (de la ville de Vigan) ». (Littré) Le Vigan est un chef-lieu d’arrondissement du Gard, dans les Cévennes. (Larousse)

Sources 1

  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vigan 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 Vigan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
XK Kosovo#820≈400 est.≈1 in 4.8K661Vigan8
DE Germany—≈60 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Vigan29
CH Switzerland—≈48 est.≈1 in 174K—Vigan5
SE Sweden—321 in 319K32Vigan7
US United States—≈26 est.≈1 in 13MlistedVigan49
AL Albania—131 in 237K13——
SI Slovenia—61 in 350K6Vigan1

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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given 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)

Vigan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vig̈aṇ

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Kosovo, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Виган, Wigan

  • Albanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Vïgåñ

42 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)

Vigan 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 English, municipality, Philippines

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Iloko, Vigan (a city, the provincial capital of Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, a very big person, a giant

    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)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Vigan जी,Hi Vigan, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Vigan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

How do you pronounce Vigan?
A machine transcription gives /vɪɡən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Vigan a male or female name?
Vigan 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.
What does the name Vigan mean?
Recorded meaning: Le vigan est une « espèce de gros drap (de la ville de Vigan) ».
In which country does Vigan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 403 people named Vigan in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vigan.
How common is the name Vigan?
In Sweden, the national register counted 32 people named Vigan, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
How common is Vigan compared with other names?
In Kosovo, Vigan is the 820th most common given name of 3,412 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, “Vigan” — the 820th most common given name in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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