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Vinny

#2,256 in 2025Boys' name

Diminutive of Vincent

Vinny has been given to 1,359 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #2,256 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Vinny, 2025

1 in 52,600

Vinny over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vinny: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Vincent

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vinny means

Vinny is a diminutive of Vincent.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Vinny is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vincent and Lavinia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,359 boys were recorded with the name Vinny between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,726 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,265 in 2020 to #2,256 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,562 in 2015 to #2,256 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 Vinny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 52,600
63 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 27,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,256
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
36,476 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vinny sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vinny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vinnys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vinny was born before 2010 — so the typical Vinny is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,345
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (420).

Is Vinny 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
+574
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,009
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+306
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (63)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,726
1964

Spellings of Vinny

Vinny is not the most common spelling — Danny is, with 51.9% against Vinny's 0.25%.

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 Vinny is used

Across 1910–2025, Vinny was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 155,320 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Minnesota1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Vinny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vinny around the world

Where Vinny 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
    1996–2025
    #342
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #333
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2024
    #3,994
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Vinny by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,256
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,009
Best rank ever
#1,726
1964
Peak year
2025
63 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,359
Count in 2025
63

Names similar to Vinny

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

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Sibling names for Vinny

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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