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Von vs Voncille

American parents have registered 6,011 Vons since 1880, against 554 Voncilles. Von is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Von against Voncille, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Von Voncille

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

Von has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1929, when Von had 32 and Voncille had 15.

Side by side

  Von Voncille
Total US births 6,011554
Most in one year 13520
Babies in 2025 68under 5
Estimated living today 4,200230
Median age today 5075
Peak year 19581941
Best rank 691st boys1,810th girls
Rank in 2025 2,125thunranked
First recorded 18981915
Girls / boys 459 / 5,552554 / 0

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 Voncilles alive today are over 75; half the Vons are over 50. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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