Vinnie is traditionally a female first name but has increasingly been given as a boys’ name in recent years.
Recently, the name Vinnie has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Vinnie. That means that a girl named Vinnie is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Vinnie.
Vinnie is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2003, where the name Vinnie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Vinnie and were born in the USA in 2003, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Vinnie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1881, it ranked on position 319 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Vinnie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Vinnie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 8 times and thus landed on position 6,090 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 8 girls with the name Vinnie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Vinnie are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Vinnie is registered in 13 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia or Kentucky. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Vinnie live in Georgia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 24,617 would turn around if you called the name Vinnie across Georgia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Vinnie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Vinnie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Vinnie, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Nut
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vinnie
Vinnie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Vinnie sounds like this:
