Vîlcu

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/vɨl̪ku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vîlcu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 243K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 734K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

206 people

Record sources
27 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 243K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Vîlcu 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 Vîlcu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain2061 in 243K206—3
PL Poland171 in 2.3M13——
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6—2
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3—2

206 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Vîlcu is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Romania, Canada

    Also written Vilcu

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, Portugal, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Vilcu

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vilcu

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Vilcu

  • Hungarian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Vilcu

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Vilcu

2 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201940196019802000Mircea Vâlcu, b. 1930Ion Vîlcu, b. 1966Adrian Vîlcu, b. 1967Silvian Vâlcu, b. 1986Claudiu Vîlcu, b. 1987

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)
FormalStimate domn / doamnă Vîlcu,Dear Vîlcu, (English)
InformalSalut Vîlcu,Hi Vîlcu, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Vîlcu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202613—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13#118,691
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#242,818

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

How do you pronounce Vîlcu?
A machine transcription gives /vɨl̪ku/ (IPA) for Romanian.
In which country does Vîlcu have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 206 people named Vîlcu, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vîlcu most common?
Vîlcu is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 243 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vîlcu?
In Spain, the national register counted 206 people named Vîlcu, about 1 in 243 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C3%AElcu

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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, “Vîlcu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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