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Vinnie vs Vint

American parents have registered 3,939 Vinnies since 1880, against 85 Vints. Vinnie is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vinnie against Vint, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vinnie 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

Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Vinnie for 142 years and Vint for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Vinnie Vint
Total US births 3,93985
Most in one year 6634
Babies in 2025 21under 5
Estimated living today 1,50060
Median age today 5866
Peak year 19161959
Best rank 831st girls1,337th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208thunranked
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 3,119 / 8200 / 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 Vinnies are over 58. That is 8 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: Vinnie and Vint.