Vlachos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vlachos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Βλάχος (Vláchos, “Wallachian”), an ethnic surname.
- GRGreece≈1 in 9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 238Kas Vlahos
- CYCyprus≈1 in 18K
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 Vlachos 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
1,397 named Vlahos, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Βλαχος in GR Greece.
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)
Borrowed from Greek Βλάχος (Vláchos, “Wallachian”), an ethnic surname.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vlachos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,397as Vlahos | 1 in 238K | 1.4K | Vlachos | 186 |
| GR Greece | #274 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 56 | Βλαχος | 103 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Vlachos | 53 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Vlachos | 62 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Vlachos | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 95 | 1 in 107K | 95 | Vlachos | 14 |
| CY Cyprus | #755 | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Vlachos | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Vlachos | 1 |
1,397 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling vlahos. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aggelos Vlachosb. 1838GRGreek politician and writer
- Eleni Vlachoub. 1911GRnot in their usual nameGreek journalist (1911–1995)
- Georgios Vlachosb. 1912GRGreek university professor and jurist (1912-1996)
- Kostas Vlachosb. 1941GRGreek philologist and high school teacher
- Vangelis Vlachosb. 1971GRGreek visual artist (born 1971)
- Tony Vlachosb. 1973USAmerican reality television contestant
- Dimitris Vlachosb. 1985GRGreek actor
- Elissaios Vlachosactor
- Andreas VlachosGBresearcher, natural language processing, University of Sheffield
- Ioannis S. VlachosUSresearcher
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 548 | #40,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 535 | #43,505 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 527 | #39,304 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 95 | #7,547 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Vlachos mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Βλάχος (Vláchos, “Wallachian”), an ethnic surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Vlachos have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Vlahos, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vlachos?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 95 people named Vlachos, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Vlachos compared with other names?
- In Greece, Vlachos is the 274th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vlachosThe 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, “Vlachos” — the 274th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.