Vilnis

given name · Latin script

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

Vilnis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Veidojums, kas līdzīgs šādam ūdens pacēlumam un kam, parasti, raksturīgas atbilstošas svārstību kustības.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 667(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 44K
  • SESweden1 in 444K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vilnis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (measured from records)

2,819 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 667 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VilnisLatin(measured from records)
ВилнисCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Вилнис in LV Latvia, RU Russia and Вілніс in UA Ukraine.

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

Veidojums, kas līdzīgs šādam ūdens pacēlumam un kam, parasti, raksturīgas atbilstošas svārstību kustības

Sources 1

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

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vilnis 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 Vilnis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia2,8191 in 6672.8KВилнис6
SE Sweden231 in 444K23——
RU Russia≈19 est.≈1 in 7.3M—Вилнис42
IS Iceland81 in 44K8——
UA Ukraine≈5 est.≈1 in 8.2M—Вілніс5
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——

2,819 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling vilnis. 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Croatian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Вилнис

31 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)

Vilnis 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 Latvian, Pacēlums, kas rodas ūdens virsmā svārstību kustības rezultātā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Parastais vilnītis ("Lactarius torminosus"), sēņu suga

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Svārstību kustība (kādā vidē, piemēram, gaisā)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Cirta

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1920194019601980Vilnis Sīpols, b. 1923Vilnis Zariņš, b. 1930Vilnis Straume, b. 1937Vilnis Edvīns Bresis, b. 1938Vilnis Resnis, b. 1939Vilnis Baltiņš, b. 1942Vilnis Beķeris, b. 1944Vilnis Krieviņš, b. 1960Vilnis Kalnaellis, b. 1961Vilnis Ķirsis, b. 1980

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 10 countries.

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 Vilnis mean?
Recorded meaning: Veidojums, kas līdzīgs šādam ūdens pacēlumam un kam, parasti, raksturīgas atbilstošas svārstību kustības
Is Vilnis a male or female name?
Vilnis 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 Vilnis have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Vilnis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled вилнис.
Where is Vilnis most common?
Vilnis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 667 people carrying it.
How common is the name Vilnis?
In Latvia, the national register counted 2,819 people named Vilnis, about 1 in 667 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, “Vilnis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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