Vanice
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vanice has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1939, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Vanice, 1990
1 in 658,000
Vanice over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Vanice?
Vanice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 658,000
- 6 of 3,949,959 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 456,318 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vanice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vanice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Vanices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vanice was born before 1955 — so the typical Vanice is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 23.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 92
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (38).
Is Vanice rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1939 (9)
- Years since peak
- 86
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.9% average annual change
Spellings of Vanice
Vanice is not the most common spelling — Alice is, with 43.7% against Vanice's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Vanice around the world
Where Vanice ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1945–1950#436in 1950
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Vanice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Vanice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vanice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.