Viney — girls' name
377 babies named Viney in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1919. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Viney was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Viney in 1919 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Viney
The Social Security Administration has registered 377 babies named Viney between 1880 and 1968, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Viney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1968. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Viney performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Viney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Viney in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Viney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 377 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Viney at a glance
Last recorded 1968Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Viney popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1968–1880
- Peak year (1919)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 89 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1968.
377 total births across 89 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1919 with 16 births in a single year.
Viney by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 85 births that decade — 23% of Viney's all-time total
Viney decade highlights
- Peak decade 85 births
- Runner-up 81 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Viney's strongest decade
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Viney by state
Where Viney concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 6 | 1.6% |
6 of 377 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–1968 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.