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Vince vs Vinh

American parents have registered 12,710 Vinces since 1880, against 1,551 Vinhs. Vince is still ahead, with 137 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vince against Vinh, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vince Vinh

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

Vince has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1983, when Vince had 72 and Vinh had 58.

Side by side

  Vince Vinh
Total US births 12,7101,551
Most in one year 59558
Babies in 2025 13723
Estimated living today 11,0001,500
Median age today 4427
Peak year 19631983
Best rank 323rd boys1,190th boys
Rank in 2025 1,362nd4,396th
First recorded 18821976
Girls / boys 5 / 12,70510 / 1,541

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 Vinces alive today are over 44; half the Vinhs are over 27. That is 17 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Vince Vinh
France 585155
England and Wales 24727

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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