Vanir
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vanir is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
- BRBrazil1 in 43K◐
- RURussia1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.9K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 32 ●
- 1 in 43K ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
108 records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ванир in RU Russia.
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●
The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Roughly 4.9K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 43K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese76K94%
- English4.9K6%
- Spanish1361%
- ptbr331%
- Hindi101%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 76,355 | 94% |
| English | 4,943 | 6% |
| Spanish | 136 | 1% |
| ptbr | 33 | 1% |
| Hindi | 10 | 1% |
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●
Vanir 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 English, Scandinavian fertility gods
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 13 |
| 1940 | 135 |
| 1950 | 821 |
| 1960 | 2,098 |
| 1970 | 3,509 |
| 1980 | 4,418 |
| 1990 | 4,745 |
| 2000 | 4,845 |
| 2022 | 4,874 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.7K | #3,062 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 4.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 4.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 4.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 4.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.8K | #1,777 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 3.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.3K | #2,780 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 2.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.9K | #2,450 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #2,780 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 1.4K | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vanir?
- We estimate roughly 4.9 thousand people bear Vanir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Vanir have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.9 thousand people bear Vanir in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Vanir most common?
- Vanir is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Vanir a male or female name?
- Vanir is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Vanir mean?
- Recorded meaning: The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
Query this name via API
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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, “Vanir”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.