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Voncille vs Vonda

American parents have registered 10,323 Vondas since 1880, against 554 Voncilles. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Voncille against Vonda, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Voncille Vonda

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

Vonda has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2008. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1927, when Voncille had 19 and Vonda had 66.

Side by side

  Voncille Vonda
Total US births 55410,323
Most in one year 201,093
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2307,300
Median age today 7560
Peak year 19411965
Best rank 1,810th girls261st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19151899
Girls / boys 554 / 010,312 / 11

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 Vondas are over 60. That is 15 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: Voncille and Vonda.