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Vince vs Vint

American parents have registered 12,710 Vinces since 1880, against 85 Vints. Vince is still ahead, with 137 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vince against Vint, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vince Vint

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

Vince has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Vince had 323 and Vint had 34.

Side by side

  Vince Vint
Total US births 12,71085
Most in one year 59534
Babies in 2025 137under 5
Estimated living today 11,00060
Median age today 4466
Peak year 19631959
Best rank 323rd boys1,337th boys
Rank in 2025 1,362ndunranked
First recorded 18821958
Girls / boys 5 / 12,7050 / 85

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 Vints alive today are over 66; half the Vinces are over 44. That is 22 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: Vince and Vint.