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Vinson vs Vint

American parents have registered 3,841 Vinsons since 1880, against 85 Vints. Vinson is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vinson against Vint, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vinson Vint

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

Vinson has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1959, when Vinson had 46 and Vint had 34.

Side by side

  Vinson Vint
Total US births 3,84185
Most in one year 7534
Babies in 2025 16under 5
Estimated living today 2,80060
Median age today 4366
Peak year 19691959
Best rank 880th boys1,337th boys
Rank in 2025 5,608thunranked
First recorded 18981958
Girls / boys 0 / 3,8410 / 85

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 Vints alive today are over 66; half the Vinsons are over 43. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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