Von
Von was given to 68 boys in 2025, #2,142 among boys’ names; 6,011 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,100 Americans named Von and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (68% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 18 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Von by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Von?
#2,142 among boys’ names, 2025
Von rose from #2,680 in 2015 to #2,142 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.0 to 39.8 per million.
135 babies in 1958, the peak
Von peaked in 1958, when 135 babies were given it (118 boys, #691 among boys’ names). The 68 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,142 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,008 | 44.7 |
| 2023 | 84 | #1,893 | 49.1 |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,187 | 38.4 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,023 | 42.3 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,233 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,484 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,667 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 80 | #1,858 | 43.2 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,204 | 32.7 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #2,680 | 24.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | #2,398 | 28.1 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,843 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,766 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,041 | 20.0 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,373 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,554 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,677 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 45 | #2,718 | 21.7 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,214 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,234 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,877 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,616 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #3,011 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,712 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,053 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,096 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,382 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,150 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,665 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,547 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,758 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,249 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 31 | #2,401 | 15.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,135 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 47 | #1,722 | 22.9 |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,021 | 18.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,841 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,678 | 22.0 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,755 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,790 | 18.4 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,720 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 31 | #1,818 | 17.3 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,888 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,659 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 42 | #1,494 | 23.5 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,045 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,568 | 22.5 |
| 1977 | 44 | #1,389 | 26.8 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,708 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,321 | 28.2 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,309 | 27.3 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,291 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,306 | 25.9 |
| 1971 | 70 | #978 | 39.6 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,116 | 29.6 |
| 1969 | 71 | #910 | 39.7 |
| 1968 | 97 | #755 | 55.8 |
| 1967 | 74 | #835 | 42.4 |
| 1966 | 90 | #772 | 50.5 |
| 1965 | 91 | #776 | 48.9 |
| 1964 | 80 | #853 | 40.1 |
| 1963 | 95 | #784 | 46.8 |
| 1962 | 107 | #743 | 51.7 |
| 1961 | 87 | #823 | 41.0 |
| 1960 | 109 | #740 | 51.1 |
| 1959 | 111 | #728 | 52.0 |
| 1958 | 118 | #691 | 55.6 |
| 1957 | 103 | #742 | 47.7 |
| 1956 | 63 | #944 | 29.8 |
| 1955 | 80 | #823 | 38.8 |
| 1954 | 84 | #786 | 41.2 |
| 1953 | 61 | #923 | 30.9 |
| 1952 | 78 | #799 | 40.1 |
| 1951 | 74 | #821 | 39.3 |
| 1950 | 67 | #833 | 37.4 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,044 | 25.9 |
| 1948 | 68 | #830 | 38.8 |
| 1947 | 57 | #936 | 31.2 |
| 1946 | 49 | #965 | 30.2 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,034 | 29.0 |
| 1944 | 33 | #1,171 | 24.2 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,211 | 23.1 |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,035 | 31.1 |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,049 | 31.8 |
| 1940 | 47 | #938 | 40.5 |
| 1939 | 43 | #974 | 38.8 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,006 | 37.0 |
| 1937 | 52 | #856 | 48.8 |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,009 | 38.6 |
| 1935 | 53 | #870 | 50.9 |
| 1934 | 64 | #776 | 62.0 |
| 1933 | 54 | #850 | 54.5 |
| 1932 | 45 | #991 | 43.1 |
| 1931 | 50 | #920 | 48.1 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,234 | 31.0 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,270 | 29.8 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,227 | 31.6 |
| 1927 | 53 | #963 | 47.0 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,263 | 30.6 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,627 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,326 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,748 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,365 | 27.6 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,327 | 29.1 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,233 | 32.9 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,528 | 24.5 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,495 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,393 | 28.1 |
| 1916 | 29 | #1,262 | 32.6 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,304 | 31.8 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,539 | 26.0 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,436 | 29.3 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,037 | 18.6 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,378 | 35.4 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,581 | 30.9 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,298 | 41.9 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,054 | 56.4 |
| 1898 | 7 | #994 | 57.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Von a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,011 Americans recorded as Von, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 68 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 Von: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Von, and how old are they?
4,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 68% of the 6,011 Americans ever recorded as Von. The median Von alive today is 50 years old; half are between 18 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 4,440 people named Von (626 women and girls, 3,814 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,030 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 176 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,190 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 861 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 536 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 524 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 816 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Von born?
The states with the most babies named Von are California, Texas and Utah, with 54% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 331 | #1,979 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 267 | #2,546 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 107 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 96 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 81 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 50 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 34 | #1,467 | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Von is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Von is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Von with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,341 babies since 1880, Von is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 82 babies (83%), again the most given.
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 Von
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 Von and names like it
- Compare Von and VonnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sVon peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Von since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Von.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Von alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.