Vannie
Vannie was last recorded in 1972, when 5 babies were given it; 1,021 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vannie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vannie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vannie is “a female given name, short for Vanessa.”
Diminutive + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vannie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,261, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1919, the peak
Vannie peaked in 1919, when 30 babies were given it (23 girls, #1,737 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,711 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,585 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,261 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,255 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,954 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,201 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,172 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,628 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,674 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,352 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 6 | #5,374 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,711 | 5 | #4,164 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,878 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,583 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,321 | 7 | #3,353 |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,152 | |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,366 | 6 | #3,311 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,541 | 7 | #3,089 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,329 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,715 | 7 | #3,193 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,014 | 6 | #3,480 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,567 | 7 | #3,120 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,313 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,781 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,086 | 5 | #4,016 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,719 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,280 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,149 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,119 | 6 | #3,752 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,959 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,413 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,293 | 8 | #3,233 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,184 | 8 | #3,339 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,331 | 7 | #3,756 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,068 | 6 | #4,159 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,607 | 8 | #3,383 |
| 1924 | 18 | #2,202 | 5 | #4,919 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,255 | 7 | #3,798 |
| 1922 | 19 | #2,097 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,919 | 5 | #4,928 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,578 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,737 | 7 | #3,719 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,682 | 5 | #4,766 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,837 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,122 | 5 | #4,487 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,131 | 7 | #3,369 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,537 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,596 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,949 | 5 | #2,881 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,781 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,621 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,943 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,433 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 22 | #816 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,096 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,158 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,357 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,197 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,211 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,129 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,100 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 15 | #872 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,093 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,376 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 13 | #947 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,114 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 11 | #993 | 5 | #1,222 |
| 1893 | 10 | #1,015 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,525 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,195 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,018 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,031 | 5 | #1,171 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,143 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 10 | #775 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,038 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,167 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 8 | #751 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 5 | #939 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Vannie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,021 Americans recorded as Vannie, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vannie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vannie, and how old are they?
An estimated 155 Americans named Vannie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 72 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 367 people named Vannie (259 women and girls, 108 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 223 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,635 babies since 1880, Vannie is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 251 babies recorded by SSA was a Vannie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vannie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vannie and names like it
- Compare Vannie and VaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVannie peaked in 1919.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vannie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Vannie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Vannie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.