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Vinnie

#14,816 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of Vincent

Vinnie has been given to 3,939 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #14,816 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 66 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.

Babies named Vinnie, 2025

1 in 553,000

Vinnie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Vinnie over time

In 2025, Vinnie went to 29% girls and 71% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Vinnie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Vincent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vinnie means

Vinnie is a diminutive of Vincent.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Vinnie → Vincent. The family’s meaning is “conquering”, recorded in English with the source elements vincēns.

Origin, language, and formation

Vinnie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vincent and Lavinia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,119 girls were recorded with the name Vinnie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1916; its best national rank was #336 in 1881.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,947 in 2015 to #14,816 in 2025.

In the United States, 820 boys were recorded with the name Vinnie between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,970 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,007 in 2020 to #6,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,695 in 2015 to #6,111 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vinnie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,816
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vinnie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vinnie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vinnies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vinnie was born before 1923 — so the typical Vinnie is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
562
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.3% of all recorded uses (477).

Is Vinnie 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
−2,741
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,131
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1916 (66)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#336
1881

Spellings of Vinnie

Vinnie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 22.0% against Vinnie's 0.19%.

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.

Where Vinnie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Vinnie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 111,623 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arkansas1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Vinnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Vinnie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Vinnie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 379,710 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Vinnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vinnie around the world

Where Vinnie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Vinnie

People whose public names include Vinnie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vinnie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vinnie. Linked forms have their own page here.

VinniVincent

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vinnie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,816
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#336
1881
Peak year
1916
66 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,119
Count in 2025
6

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,896
Best rank ever
#1,970
1960
Peak year
1989
26 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
820
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Vinnie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

VinieSunnieVonnieVincentDannieLaynieLeonieVincenzaLennieLainieJohnieSydnieJoaniePennieJonnieMarnieVinaLonnieEugenieGenieJournieVinitaLinnieRonnie

Names with a curve like Vinnie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vinnie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RillaClemmieFloridaVinaRettaSudieLuveniaJettieZettaLydaEdaEsta

Sibling names for Vinnie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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