Viorel
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viorel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: violet-colored.
- RORomania1 in 74◐
- ITItaly1 in 37K
- UAUkraine1 in 49K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 95 ●
- 1 in 360 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
19K records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Виорел in MD Moldova, RU Russia, FI Finland and 3 more and Віорел in UA Ukraine.
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●
violet-colored
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #18 | 424,354 | 429 rec. | — | 141K | Viorel | 58 |
| MD Moldova | — | 9,352△ | 65 rec. | 1 in 360 | 9.4K | Виорел | 16 |
| RU Russia | — | 7,154 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Виорел | 95 |
| UA Ukraine | #562 | 6,447 | 6.4K rec. | — | — | Віорел | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,036△ | 795 rec. | 1 in 25K | 2.1K | Viorel | 24 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,381 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Viorel | 28 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,334 | 1.5K rec. | — | 1 | Viorel | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 701 | 775 rec. | — | listed | Viorel | 41 |
| US United States | — | 675 | 3.6K rec. | 1 in 493K | 675 | Viorel | 75 |
| PL Poland | — | 487△ | 28 rec. | 1 in 79K | 487 | Viorel | 12 |
| AT Austria | — | 227 | 204 rec. | — | 5 | Viorel | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 186△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 55K | 186 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian282K57%
- English148K30%
- Romanian31K6%
- Spanish13K3%
- French5.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 282,081 | 57% |
| English | 147,954 | 30% |
| Romanian | 31,480 | 6% |
| Spanish | 12,647 | 3% |
| French | 5,603 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 31 |
| 2000 | 32 |
| 2001 | 35 |
| 2002 | 34 |
| 2003 | 34 |
| 2004 | 35 |
| 2005 | 36 |
| 2006 | 35 |
| 2007 | 42 |
| 2008 | 49 |
| 2009 | 55 |
| 2010 | 62 |
| 2011 | 63 |
| 2012 | 67 |
| 2013 | 72 |
| 2014 | 74 |
| 2015 | 76 |
| 2016 | 83 |
| 2017 | 91 |
| 2018 | 98 |
| 2019 | 100 |
| 2020 | 100 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Viorel Hrebenciucb. 1953ROMember of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
- Viorel Năstaseb. 1953RORomanian footballer
- Viorel Manoleb. 1957ROvolleyball player
- Viorel Cibotarub. 1958MDMoldovan politician, former political analyst and journalist
- Mihai Fiforb. 1970ROnot in their usual nameRomanian politician
- Viorel Moldovanb. 1972RORomanian footballer
- Viorel Talapanb. 1972RORomanian rower
- Viorel Iordăchescub. 1977MDMoldovan chess grandmaster
- Viorel Frunzăb. 1979MDMoldovan footballer
- Viorel Nebunuactor
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 35 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | DEPABD — name-day population snapshot | 2019 | 141K | — |
| RO Romania | DEPABD — resident population names | 2019 | 141K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 9.4K | #110 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #736 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #1,711 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 675 | #16,565 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 487 | #710 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 432 | #729 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 220 | #4,483 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 188 | #3,621 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 186 | #5,511 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 117 | #1,290 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Viorel?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Viorel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Viorel have the most bearers?
- Viorel is most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is most often spelled viorel.
- How common is Viorel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Viorel is the 18th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
- Is Viorel a male or female name?
- Viorel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Viorel mean?
- Recorded meaning: violet-colored
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Viorel” — the 18th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.