Fun Facts About the Name Vigo
- 61 babies named Vigo: U.S. records list 61 babies given the name Vigo from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Vigo Mean?
Vigo is an uncommon masculine given name, usually explained as a variant spelling of the Scandinavian name Viggo, whose established meaning is warrior. Viggo comes from Old Norse, where the element víg means battle or combat. The name is generally taken to be a short form of longer Norse names built on that element, such as Vígbjörn and Vígmundr, or a form of the Old Norse adjective vígr, meaning battle-ready. The literal sense of the element is battle; warrior is the customary English rendering of the whole name.
The place name Vigo, a city in Galicia in northwestern Spain, and the surname that comes from it follow a different path, generally traced to Latin vicus, meaning village or settlement. That is a separate origin and should not be merged with the Norse given name.
Vigo Name History & Origins
Viggo is the older and better attested form. It is recorded in medieval Scandinavia and has remained in use in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The Old Norse ancestor is reconstructed from the name element rather than preserved in a single fixed spelling, and Vigo is the same name written with one g.
Outside Scandinavia, Vigo is more familiar as a place name and surname than as a first name. It is the name of a city in Galicia, Spain, and of a surname found in Spain and France; the French film director Jean Vigo (1905 - 1934) carried it. In English-language popular culture, Vigo the Carpathian, the villain of the 1989 film Ghostbusters II, is a well-known fictional use and has no bearing on the name's origin.
As a given name, Vigo is rare, and its use is best understood alongside the established Scandinavian name Viggo rather than as a separate naming tradition.
How Popular is the Name Vigo?
Vigo has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2023. Its best rank was #7,686 in 2023.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,865 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2023 | #7,686 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #9,762 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2021 | #13,936 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #14,002 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2018 | #13,962 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #14,068 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #9,505 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2010 | #14,141 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Vigo Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are fixed in your opinions, firm in your friendships and square in your dealings with others. You are an excellent worker. Since you are both possessive and emotional, you can be either very practical or very impractical and unpredictable. Your dual nature needs to become steadfast. You are the marrying kind. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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