Vinny is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Vinnie, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vinny: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,727 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,727 in 1964; #2,256 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vinny in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,256 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #1,727.
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Vinny: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,727 in 1964 · most boys in one year: 63 (2025).
In 2025, 63 US boys were named Vinny, making it the 2,256th most common boys’ name of the year, up 574 places from #2,830 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 46 boys named Vinny in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,727, reached in 1964. The most boys given the name in a single year was 63, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,563 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vinny in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1948 with 9 babies. In all, 1,359 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 420 babies named Vinny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 438 US boys were named Vinny; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 63. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,112 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vinny ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #928 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Vinnie (3,939 babies since 1880), Vianey (3,732 babies since 1880) and Vianney (2,633 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vinny in the open dataset we use.
Vinny is listed as a nickname for Calvin, Vincent, Vincenzo, Vinson.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #928 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,026 | #1,006 |
| California | 13 | #1,430 | #1,528 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 63 | #2,256 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,830 |
| 2023 | — | — | 53 | #2,536 |
| 2022 | — | — | 42 | #2,999 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,815 |
| 2020 | — | — | 35 | #3,267 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,803 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,843 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,372 |
| 2016 | — | — | 32 | #3,520 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,563 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,363 |
| 2013 | — | — | 42 | #2,803 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,445 |
| 2011 | — | — | 54 | #2,372 |
| 2010 | — | — | 36 | #3,177 |
| 2009 | — | — | 16 | #5,785 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #4,035 |
| 2007 | — | — | 19 | #4,978 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,996 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,321 |
| 2004 | — | — | 22 | #4,125 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,972 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,695 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,965 |
| 2000 | — | — | 23 | #3,631 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,333 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,442 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,669 |
| 1995 | — | — | 19 | #3,552 |
| 1994 | — | — | 22 | #3,211 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,212 |
| 1992 | — | — | 18 | #3,599 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,217 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #8,076 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,903 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,727 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,945 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,301 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,235 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,503 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #7,041 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,729 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,825 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,893 |
| 1970 | — | — | 10 | #3,273 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,391 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,956 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,240 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,776 |
| 1964 | — | — | 22 | #1,727 |
| 1963 | — | — | 19 | #1,900 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,959 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,820 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,768 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,193 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,262 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,487 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,924 |
| 1955 | — | — | 11 | #2,549 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,805 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,227 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,183 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,779 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).