Ville

loc · Latin script

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

Ville is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In French, recorded as town, city.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 74K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 137K
  • DKDenmark1 in 255K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

382 people

Sources
248 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A Vietnamese village.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ville is read(measured from records)

Ville is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French21%

    town, city

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

  • English11%

    A Vietnamese village.

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

  • Arabic7.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ville in Arabic.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ville 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 Ville is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3821 in 554K382—1
US United States1931 in 1.7M218Ville98
BE Belgium1581 in 74K158Ville53
NO Norway401 in 137K538—1
NL Netherlands401 in 432K40—8
DK Denmark231 in 255K312——

382 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Ville is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Vìlle, Vîllë, Vïllë, Vïllê, Villé

  • Portuguese name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, France, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Villê, Vïllê, Villé, Vîlle

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Vìllè, Villé, Vïllē, Vïllë

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Villé

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

  • Malay name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Also written Vîlĺĕ, Villé

  • Arabic surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan

    Also written Vîlle, Vïllé, Vìllê, Vïllē, Vīľĺe

53 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)

Ville is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Ville är från början en smekform till → William och → Vilhelm som nu också används som officiellt förnamn. Det är sedan länge ett vanligt förnamn i Finland. I den finlands svenska almanackan 6 april.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Latin, vocative singular of villus

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of vill

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

  • In Estonian, illative singular of vile

    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)

1850190019502000Ville Vallgren, b. 1855Ville Ritola, b. 1896Ville Itälä, b. 1959Ville Virtanen, b. 1961Ville Haapasalo, b. 1972Ville Skinnari, b. 1974Ville Valo, b. 1976Ville Niinistö, b. 1976Ville Nieminen, b. 1977Ville Lång, b. 1985

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 48 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Ville
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—382#21,578
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020218#90,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010193#94,730
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000158#104,819
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200854#24,684
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—40#30,096
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200740#35,200
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—23#20,995
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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

Where does the name Ville come from?
A Vietnamese village. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Ville?
In Brazil, the national register counted 382 people named Ville, about 1 in 554 thousand residents.
What does the name Ville mean?
In French, town, city
In which country does Ville have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 382 people named Ville, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ville most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ville is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Ville”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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