Viney
Viney was last recorded in 1968, when 5 babies were given it; 377 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Viney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Viney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,168, in 1968; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1919, the peak
Viney peaked in 1919, when 16 girls were given it, #2,258 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 5 | #8,168 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,555 | 3.1 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,384 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #6,033 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,003 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,079 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,534 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,214 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,670 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,395 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 7 | #3,843 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,220 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,959 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,154 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,566 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,942 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,828 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,020 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,382 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,394 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,772 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,861 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,650 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,806 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,941 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,144 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,149 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,375 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,258 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,546 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,332 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,490 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,924 | 5.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,257 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,530 | 12.8 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,185 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,130 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,465 | 28.8 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,543 | 26.9 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,381 | 15.7 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,782 | 22.7 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,221 | 36.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,690 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,574 | 25.2 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,478 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,432 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,442 | 28.3 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,272 | 33.6 |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,020 | 46.5 |
| 1882 | 6 | #903 | 55.6 |
| 1881 | 5 | #938 | 54.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #831 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Viney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Viney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Viney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Viney, and how old are they?
An estimated 53 Americans named Viney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 202 people named Viney (145 women and girls, 57 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 77 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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).
How common is the spelling Viney?
Viney is a less common spelling of Vinnie: SSA has recorded 377 Viney and 3,939 Vinnie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,747 babies since 1880, Viney is the sixth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 117 babies recorded by SSA was a Viney (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 Viney
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 Viney and names like it
- Compare Viney and VinnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sViney peaked in 1919.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Viney since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Viney.
- Names starting with VMost given first.