Vines

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Vines is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 26th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: different form of Vine.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 27K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 33K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 38K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈11K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
321 ●

99K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 20K ◐

Norway

Meaning & origin●

different form of Vine

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Vines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—10,06181K rec.1 in 33K10KVines321
GB United Kingdom—6,1535.7K rec.——Vines109
AU Australia—3,0952.9K rec.——Vines112
CA Canada—1,3181.3K rec.—1Vines44
ES Spain—686△154 rec.1 in 73K686Vines25
CL Chile—60985 rec.——Vines25
PH Philippines—584548 rec.——Vines19
IT Italy—487518 rec.——Vines5
LR Liberia#263361.1K rec.——Vines2
DE Germany—330331 rec.——Vines22
NO Norway—274△57 rec.1 in 20K274Vines14
DZ Algeria—263291 rec.——Vines1

Roughly 10K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 33K). 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●

  • English90K78%
  • Spanish8.4K7%
  • 2.9K3%
  • Marathi2K2%
  • Chinese1.7K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English89,59378%
Spanish8,4087%
2,9193%
Marathi2,0202%
Chinese1,7221%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vines is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname3.3K records spelled Vines6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Also written Viñes, Vinés, Vińes, Vinès, Viñés

  • Indonesian surname434 records spelled Vines2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Also written Viñes

  • Italian surname160 records spelled Vines3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, San Marino

    Also written Viñes, Vinez

51 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.

Other recorded senses●

Vines is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, plural of vine (“grapevine”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, indefinite genitive plural of vin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, inessive singular of vine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vo, dative plural of vin

    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.

Over time●

0102030192019401960198023 · 1981

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Vines in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1901–1991
Yearrecords
19013
19118
19216
19316
194110
195116
196112
197117
198123
19918

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 10 years between 1901–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Sydney Howard Vines, b. 1849Ashley Vines, b. 1891Bob Vines, b. 1897Ellsworth Vines, b. 1911Graham Vines, b. 1930David Vines, b. 1949Dexter Vines, b. 1971John Vines, b. 1973Scottie Vines, b. 1979Sam Vines, b. 1999

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●

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Vines
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,547
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.8K#3,339
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.2K#3,753
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—2K#3,360
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—305#7,327
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—274#5,662
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—141#4,685
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—43#116,436
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—36—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#43,811
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197117—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 46 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vines?
We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Vines (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Vines have the most bearers?
We estimate about 10 thousand people bear Vines in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vines.
How common is Vines compared with other names?
In Liberia, Vines is the 26th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Vines mean?
Recorded meaning: different form of Vine
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Vines” — the 26th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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