Vencil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vencil has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1916, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Vencil, 1958
1 in 827,000
Vencil 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Vencil?
Vencil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1958
- 1 in 827,000
- 5 of 4,133,550 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 424,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1958
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 573,033 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vencil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vencil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Vencils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vencil was born before 1927 — so the typical Vencil is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 37.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Vencil 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (13)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.4% average annual change
Spellings of Vencil
Vencil is not the most common spelling — Cecil is, with 93.9% against Vencil's 0.14%.
Where Vencil is used
Across 1910–2025, Vencil was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 686,261 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vencil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Vencil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Vencil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vencil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.