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Vollie vs Volney

American parents have registered 629 Volneys since 1880, against 452 Vollies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vollie against Volney, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vollie Volney

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 68 years in which either name was published, Volney for 52 years and Vollie for 16 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Vollie Volney
Total US births 452629
Most in one year 2326
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 7090
Median age today 7673
Peak year 19181916
Best rank 1,905th boys1,335th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18841880
Girls / boys 74 / 3780 / 629

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 Vollies alive today are over 76; half the Volneys are over 73. That is 3 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: Vollie and Volney.