Vice Surname
Approximately 9,928 people bear this surname
Vice Surname Definition:
Halliwell says-"The buffoon of our early drama." When the "Mysteries" ceased to be played for the amusement of our medieval ancestors, a kind of performances succeeded, which were known as Moralities. In these the dialogue was sustained by allegorical characters, "such as Good Doctrine, Charity, Faith, Prudence, Discretion, Death, and the like, and their discourses were of a serious cast.
Read More About This SurnameVice Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 7,429 | 1:48,790 | 5,910 |
| South Africa | 1,290 | 1:41,998 | 5,378 |
| England | 224 | 1:248,741 | 20,175 |
| Canada | 160 | 1:230,285 | 22,082 |
| Saudi Arabia | 159 | 1:194,062 | 29,524 |
| Peru | 88 | 1:361,183 | 12,230 |
| Taiwan | 67 | 1:349,922 | 2,772 |
| Brazil | 57 | 1:3,755,690 | 104,031 |
| Australia | 56 | 1:482,066 | 36,890 |
| Nigeria | 48 | 1:3,690,474 | 107,175 |
| Portugal | 47 | 1:221,665 | 8,706 |
| India | 38 | 1:20,185,931 | 296,209 |
| Wales | 31 | 1:99,824 | 7,946 |
| Pakistan | 18 | 1:9,924,660 | 48,309 |
| Slovakia | 14 | 1:381,175 | 50,143 |
| Singapore | 13 | 1:423,669 | 18,211 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12 | 1:294,700 | 12,460 |
| Italy | 11 | 1:5,559,699 | 110,230 |
| Thailand | 9 | 1:7,848,705 | 447,191 |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 | 1:1,018,030 | 36,884 |
| Guam | 8 | 1:20,015 | 3,029 |
| Indonesia | 7 | 1:18,892,742 | 520,071 |
| Czechia | 6 | 1:1,772,245 | 105,647 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Netherlands | 6 | 1:2,814,529 | 101,176 |
| France | 6 | 1:11,070,454 | 349,096 |
| Russia | 5 | 1:28,824,611 | 530,332 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Spain | 4 | 1:11,688,009 | 116,470 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1:1,784,606 | 41,943 |
| Nicaragua | 3 | 1:2,007,030 | 6,490 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1:3,282,252 | 190,759 |
| Tanzania | 3 | 1:17,647,204 | 107,932 |
| Mexico | 3 | 1:41,375,402 | 71,397 |
| Argentina | 3 | 1:14,247,805 | 235,975 |
| Latvia | 3 | 1:683,349 | 34,074 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1:15,393,300 | 77,493 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Guyana | 2 | 1:381,110 | 13,532 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Bolivia | 2 | 1:5,308,217 | 12,400 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Zambia | 2 | 1:7,924,961 | 45,994 |
| Zimbabwe | 2 | 1:7,719,120 | 118,432 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Cape Verde | 1 | 1:529,642 | 6,792 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Togo | 1 | 1:7,247,768 | 12,049 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1:3,034,588 | 47,401 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 147 | 1:165,819 | 14,183 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 771 | 1:65,134 | 7,100 |
The alternate forms: Viçe (65), Vicè (2), Vicê (1) & Více (1) are calculated separately.
Vice (3,392) may also be a first name.
Vice Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
Halliwell says-"The buffoon of our early drama." When the "Mysteries" ceased to be played for the amusement of our medieval ancestors, a kind of performances succeeded, which were known as Moralities. In these the dialogue was sustained by allegorical characters, "such as Good Doctrine, Charity, Faith, Prudence, Discretion, Death, and the like, and their discourses were of a serious cast." The foil to all these excellent personages was the Vice or Iniquity, who usually personified some evil propensity, and kept up a running fire of wit at the expense of the rest.
From vose, a ditch, intrenchment, wall, fortification; vôy vôza, foza, vose, id.; boza, bose, an intrenchment; fôz, fôs, a wall; from L. fossa, a ditch, moat, trench. Hence probably the names Boas, Boase, Boaz, Bice, Fice, Fos, Foss, Moose, Moysey (? ), Vause, Vice, Voaso, Voaz, Voce, Voice, Vos, Voss, Vossa, Voyce, Voysey(? ).
Vice Demographics
Average Male Vice Height
176.52 cm
Average Female Vice Height
161.13 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Vice Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Vice Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Vice is borne by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms: Viçe, Vicè, Vicê or Více. Click here for further potential spellings of Vice.
How Common Is The Last Name Vice? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 51,616th most frequent family name worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 734,040 people. The last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 78 percent of Vice are found; 76 percent are found in North America and 76 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Vice is also the 122,314th most numerous forename in the world, held by 3,392 people.
The last name Vice is most frequently occurring in The United States, where it is borne by 7,429 people, or 1 in 48,790. In The United States Vice is most frequent in: Louisiana, where 11 percent live, Kentucky, where 9 percent live and Alabama, where 9 percent live. Without taking into account The United States this surname is found in 85 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 13 percent live and England, where 2 percent live.
Vice Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Vice has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Vice last name expanded 964 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 152 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Vice Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those holding the Vice last name is chiefly Orthodox (100%) in Russia.
In The United States Vice are 17.77% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 64.54% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Vice earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 43.12% less than the national average, earning S/. 11,027 per year; in South Africa they earn 6.88% more than the national average, earning R 253,980 per year; in United States they earn 7.17% less than the national average, earning $40,055 USD per year and in Canada they earn 17.19% more than the national average, earning $58,224 CAD per year.
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