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Vonna vs Vonnie

American parents have registered 4,121 Vonnies since 1880, against 1,095 Vonnas. Vonnie is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vonna 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

Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Vonnie for 103 years and Vonna for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Vonna Vonnie
Total US births 1,0954,121
Most in one year 36111
Babies in 2025 under 512
Estimated living today 6202,100
Median age today 7069
Peak year 19601959
Best rank 1,887th girls1,055th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19151888
Girls / boys 1,095 / 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.

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