Vives
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: second-person singular present subjunctive of vivar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bibes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vives is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.7K
- ARArgentina1 in 29K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
10,357 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Vives is read(measured from records)
Vives is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 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.
- Spanish67%
second-person singular present subjunctive of vivar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French13%
feminine plural of vif
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Catalan8.0%
feminine plural of viu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Vives 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #352 | 10,357 | 1 in 4.8K | 10K | Vives | 167 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 370 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,555 | 1 in 29K | 1.6K | Vives | 58 |
| US United States | — | 987 | 1 in 337K | 1.2K | Vives | 185 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 2 | Vives | 66 |
| CR Costa Rica | #295 | 893 | 1 in 5.7K | 893 | Vives | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 343 | 1 in 9.9K | 343 | Vives | 21 |
10,357 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Vives is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular future active indicative of vīvō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, second-person singular present indicative of viver
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)
- Juan Luis Vivesb. 1492ESSpanish philosopher
- Enric Valor i Vivesb. 1911ESSpanish writer (1911–2000)
- Joan Enric Vives Sicíliab. 1949ESSpanish bishop
- Carlos Vivesb. 1961COColombian singer
- Xavier Pascual Vivesb. 1972ESSpanish professional basketball coach
- Eva Vivesb. 1976ESSpanish screenwriter, director and producer
- Nuria Llagostera Vivesb. 1980ESSpanish tennis player
- Peter Vivesb. 1987ESSpanish actor
- Ricky Rubiob. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1990)
- Guillem Vivesb. 1993ESSpanish basketball player (born 1993)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #532 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #531 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 987 | #25,136 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 954 | #24,560 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 893 | #491 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 455 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 370 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 352 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 343 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 340 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Vives come from?
- A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vives?
- A machine transcription gives /bibes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Vives mean?
- In Spanish, second-person singular present subjunctive of vivar
- In which country does Vives have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Vives, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vives.
- Where is Vives most common?
- Vives is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vives?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,357 people named Vives, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Vives compared with other names?
- In Spain, Vives is the 352nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vivesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Vives” — the 352nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.