Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Vinnie was most popular in 1916, when 66 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,550 that year. In 2025 it ranked #9,947, with 21 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,939 people named Vinnie.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Vinnie is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 143 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,939 American births named Vinnie between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,515 are estimated to be alive today.
21 American babies were named Vinnie in 2025, ranking #9,947 that year.
Vinnie is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 18 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Vinnie is a unisex name — 79.2% of the 3,939 Americans given it were girls and 20.8% were boys. It changed hands: since 1989 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 25% girls and 75% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 1,515 Americans named Vinnie are alive today — 38% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 60 years old, and half are between 30 and 74. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org