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Vina vs Vinton

American parents have registered 5,267 Vinas since 1880, against 1,068 Vintons. Vina is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vina against Vinton, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vina Vinton

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Vina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Vina had 7 and Vinton had 7.

Side by side

  Vina Vinton
Total US births 5,2671,068
Most in one year 11131
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 1,600450
Median age today 5856
Peak year 19201916
Best rank 690th girls1,176th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 18801894
Girls / boys 5,267 / 00 / 1,068

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vinas alive today are over 58; half the Vintons are over 56. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vina and Vinton.