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Voncille vs Vonnie

American parents have registered 4,121 Vonnies since 1880, against 554 Voncilles. Vonnie is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Voncille against Vonnie, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Voncille Vonnie

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

Vonnie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1927, when Voncille had 19 and Vonnie had 31.

Side by side

  Voncille Vonnie
Total US births 5544,121
Most in one year 20111
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 2302,100
Median age today 7569
Peak year 19411959
Best rank 1,810th girls1,055th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19151888
Girls / boys 554 / 03,691 / 430

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 Voncilles alive today are over 75; half the Vonnies are over 69. That is 6 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: Voncille and Vonnie.