Vinny

Where Vinny comes from

From Vincent + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Vinny
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #2,608 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Peak, #1,700
    22 babies named Vinny — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,617.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Vincent.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Lavinia.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.