Vaai
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vaai is a surname, most frequently recorded in Australia. In Samoa it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- WSSamoa1 in 777◐
- NZNew Zealand1 in 216K
- AUAustralia1 in 547K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈25 ●
- Sources
- 21 ●
- 1 in 53M ◐
across 1 country
462 records
Official registry-verified
India
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | 154 | 193 rec. | — | — | Vaai | 21 |
| US United States | — | 88 | 170 rec. | — | listed | Vaai | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 35 | 31 rec. | — | — | Vaai | 18 |
| WS Samoa | #4 | 28 | 40 rec. | — | #133 | Vaai | 12 |
| IN India | — | 25 | 14 rec. | 1 in 53M | 25 | — | 3 |
| CK Cook Islands | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English27745%
- Hindi23838%
- Swahili183%
- 122%
- French122%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 277 | 45% |
| Hindi | 238 | 38% |
| Swahili | 18 | 3% |
| 12 | 2% | |
| French | 12 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Vaai 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 dag, 1. to gather (inanimate things) together 2. to gather a following 3. vaai n-zi, to think too much of oneself; to be conceited 4. vaai guui, to run quickly or suddenly. (many objects) see va
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Latvian, Vissavienības Augu aizsardzības /zinātniskās pētniecības/ institūts
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 84 | #5,384 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 60 | #4,495 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #68,519 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #11,355 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #31,598 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #37,898 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 1 | #63 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
| WS Samoa | This page presents a list of popular Samoan surnames along with their background and cultural significance, published by | — | — | #133 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vaai?
- We estimate roughly 25 people bear Vaai (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Vaai have the most bearers?
- Vaai is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled vaai.
- How common is Vaai compared with other names?
- In Samoa, Vaai is the 4th most common surname of 144 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Vaai” — the 4th most common surname in Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.