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Von vs Voncile

American parents have registered 6,011 Vons since 1880, against 1,445 Vonciles. Von is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Von against Voncile, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Von Voncile

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 119 years in which either name was published, Von for 110 years and Voncile for 9 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Von Voncile
Total US births 6,0111,445
Most in one year 13542
Babies in 2025 68under 5
Estimated living today 4,200520
Median age today 5076
Peak year 19581941
Best rank 691st boys1,151st girls
Rank in 2025 2,125thunranked
First recorded 18981910
Girls / boys 459 / 5,5521,445 / 0

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 Vonciles alive today are over 76; half the Vons are over 50. That is 26 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: Von and Voncile.