Vin
Vin was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,606 among boys’ names; 261 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vin is “Short form of the male given name Vincent.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vin?
#10,606 among boys’ names, 2025
Vin fell from #8,693 in 2015 to #10,606 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 4.1 per million.
19 babies in 2003, the peak
Vin peaked in 2003, when 19 boys were given it, #4,407 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,606 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,252 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 6 | #12,148 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,725 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,117 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,500 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,166 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,579 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,641 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,319 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,693 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,706 | 8.3 |
| 2012 | 12 | #7,008 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,689 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,202 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,974 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,846 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,671 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,197 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,946 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,407 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #7,006 | 5.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,440 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,089 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,634 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,922 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,237 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 261 Americans recorded as Vin, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vin, and how old are they?
An estimated 252 Americans named Vin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 908 people named Vin (104 women and girls, 804 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Vin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 5,697 babies since 1880, Vin is the seventh most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 198 babies (3.5%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Vin
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 Vin and names like it
- Compare Vin and ViaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVin peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vin since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Vin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.