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Vicie vs Vicky

American parents have registered 53,983 Vickys since 1880, against 755 Vicies. Vicky is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vicie against Vicky, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vicie Vicky

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Vicky for 105 years and Vicie for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Vicie Vicky
Total US births 75553,983
Most in one year 312,965
Babies in 2025 under 535
Estimated living today 13045,000
Median age today 7465
Peak year 19201957
Best rank 1,439th girls142nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,067th
First recorded 18841912
Girls / boys 755 / 053,543 / 440

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vicies alive today are over 74; half the Vickys are over 65. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vicie and Vicky.