Viry
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viry is a surname, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 41K◐
- BEBelgium1 in 2.4M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ◐
- Sources
- 115 ●
- 1 in 41K ◐
across 3 countries
4.2K records
Official registry-verified
France
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 estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1.7K | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 41K | 233 | Viry | 115 |
| BE Belgium | ≈5 | 16 rec. | 1 in 2.4M | 1 | Viry | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈3 | 7 rec. | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | Viry | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
Roughly 1.7K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 41K). 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●
- French6.9K97%
- English581%
- Spanish581%
- German391%
- Polish121%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 6,851 | 97% |
| English | 58 | 1% |
| Spanish | 58 | 1% |
| German | 39 | 1% |
| Polish | 12 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 84 |
| 1901 | 157 |
| 1911 | 158 |
| 1921 | 185 |
| 1931 | 174 |
| 1941 | 270 |
| 1951 | 274 |
| 1961 | 317 |
| 1971 | 249 |
| 1981 | 240 |
| 1991 | 233 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Justin de Viryb. 1737FRSardinian, French politician (1737-1813)
- François Joseph Marie Henri La Perrière de Viryb. 1766FRFrench politician
- Paul Alphonse Viryb. 1832FRFrench painter
- Firmin Viryb. 1935FRFrench singer
- Jean-Claude Viryb. 1943FRFrench biathlete
- Roger Viry-Babelb. 1945FRFrench film director (1945–2006)
- Jean-François Viryb. 1947FRFrench politician
- Guillaume Viryb. 1953FRFrench actor
- Stéphane Viryb. 1969FRFrench politician
- Maryline Guilloux-ViryFRresearcher
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 317 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 274 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 270 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 249 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 240 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 233 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 185 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 174 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 158 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 84 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 24 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Viry?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Viry (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Viry have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Viry in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled viry.
- Where is Viry most common?
- Viry is densest in France, where we estimate about 1 in 41 thousand people carry it.
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, “Viry”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.