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Vinson

#5,833 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Vinson has been given to 3,841 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #5,833 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Vinson, 2025

1 in 207,000

Vinson over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vinson: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vinson means

Vinson is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vinson is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,841 boys were recorded with the name Vinson between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 75 in 1969; its best national rank was #884 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,723 in 2020 to #5,833 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,535 in 2015 to #5,833 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 Vinson?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,833
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vinson 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vinson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vinsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vinson was born before 1972 — so the typical Vinson is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,987
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (553).

Is Vinson 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
+6,421
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,110
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,298
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.3%
Peak was 1969 (75)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#884
1969

Spellings of Vinson

Vinson is not the most common spelling — Wilson is, with 37.9% against Vinson's 3.0%.

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 Vinson is used

Across 1910–2025, Vinson was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 130,314 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Vinson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vinson around the world

Where Vinson 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
    2012–2014
    #3,895
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

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

Notable people named Vinson

People whose public names include Vinson, 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.

Vinson by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,833
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,110
Best rank ever
#884
1969
Peak year
1969
75 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,841
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Vinson

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

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Names with a curve like Vinson

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

RanceCharltonEugenioFranzWillyAlfonzoEdmundoErasmoClementeNilsEnricoCandido

Sibling names for Vinson

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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