Vrana
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Vrana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Czech Vrána, from Czech vrána (“crow”).
- CZCzechia1 in 3.5K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 73K
- HRCroatia1 in 192K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,046 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- CzechVrána(measured from records)
- Czechvrána“crow”(measured from records)
From Czech Vrána, from Czech vrána (“crow”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vrana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #919 | 3,046 | 1 in 3.5K | 3K | Vrana | 68 |
| US United States | — | 815 | 1 in 408K | 1.2K | Vrana | 64 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Vrana | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 679K | 16 | Vrana | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 517K | — | Vrana | 5 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 75 | 1 in 73K | 75 | Vrana | 31 |
| HR Croatia | — | 22 | 1 in 192K | 22 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10 | 1 in 210K | 10 | — | — |
3,046 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling vrána. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Vrana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, crow
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)- Josip Vranab. 1903HRCroatian slavist (1903-1991)
- Josef Vranab. 1905CZCzech catholic priest (1905-1987)
- József Vranab. 1922HU(1922 - 1994) percussion teacher
- Josef Vranab. 1939Czech architect and painter (*1939)
- Branislav Vranab. 1971SKresearcher
- Péter Vranaresearcher
- Adele Godoy VranaBRco-founder and co-director of Whose knowledge? organization
- Andrea VranaSicilian nobleman
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,990 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 815 | #29,093 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 162 | #6,172 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 161 | #10,528 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 22 | #21,736 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 10 | #19,585 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Vrana mean, and where does it come from?
- From Czech Vrána, from Czech vrána (“crow”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Vrana have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Vrana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vrana.
- Where is Vrana most common?
- Vrana is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vrana?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 3,046 people named Vrana, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Vrana compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Vrana is the 919th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vranaThe 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, “Vrana” — the 919th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.