Thirty years of Vinnie
Vinnie in numbers
Vinnie is still climbing: from 4 boys in 1997 (its first published year) to 851 in 2025, its highest count so far. Its biggest three-year rise came between 2022 and 2025, from 435 to 851. It ranked 2,337th in 1997 and reached 58th in 2025, its best place so far. On average it was given to 76 boys a year in the 2000s, 286 in the 2010s and 549 in the 2020s so far.
† Shapes, averages and turning points are Baby Data calculations from the ONS counts.
Milestones
First year in each bandChange
- On last year+45%585 to 851
- 5 years+80%472 to 851
- 10 years+177%307 to 851
- 20 years+964%80 to 851
- Since 1997 (first published)×2134 to 851
- Total, 1996 to 20256,943boys
† All changes and totals are Baby Data calculations from ONS counts. A total adds only the published years.
Across the three nations, 2025
Each from its own statistics office, never added togetherRank 58 · ONS · 585 in 2024
Rank 95 · NRS · 27 in 2024
Rank 199 · NISRA · 6 in 2024
England and Wales (ONS) count births in the calendar year; Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) count births registered in the year. Each comes from its own statistics office and they are never added together.
Year by year, 1996 to 2025 Show all 30 yearsHide the table
| Year | Rank | Babies | Change† | 1 in X† |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | 851 | +45% | 1 in 353 |
| 2024 | 91 | 585 | +24% | 1 in 521 |
| 2023 | 111 | 473 | +9% | 1 in 641 |
| 2022 | =129 | 435 | -9% | 1 in 714 |
| 2021 | 121 | 477 | +1% | 1 in 671 |
| 2020 | 119 | 472 | +23% | 1 in 666 |
| 2019 | 146 | 384 | +2% | 1 in 857 |
| 2018 | =150 | 377 | +15% | 1 in 895 |
| 2017 | 168 | 327 | +7% | 1 in 1,064 |
| 2016 * | 184 | 305 | -1% | 1 in 1,168 |
| 2015 | 186 | 307 | +12% | 1 in 1,167 |
| 2014 | 208 | 274 | +17% | 1 in 1,302 |
| 2013 | 221 | 235 | +4% | 1 in 1,525 |
| 2012 | 229 | 226 | +7% | 1 in 1,656 |
| 2011 | =230 | 212 | -1% | 1 in 1,750 |
| 2010 | 223 | 215 | +65% | 1 in 1,725 |
| 2009 | =313 | 130 | +2% | 1 in 2,786 |
| 2008 | =316 | 127 | +23% | 1 in 2,858 |
| 2007 | =356 | 103 | +14% | 1 in 3,441 |
| 2006 | =383 | 90 | +13% | 1 in 3,805 |
| 2005 | =384 | 80 | +16% | 1 in 4,132 |
| 2004 | =402 | 69 | +8% | 1 in 4,758 |
| 2003 | =406 | 64 | +100% | 1 in 4,975 |
| 2002 | =611 | 32 | -11% | 1 in 9,564 |
| 2001 | =533 | 36 | +29% | 1 in 8,462 |
| 2000 | =651 | 28 | +75% | 1 in 11,058 |
| 1999 | =948 | 16 | +78% | 1 in 19,953 |
| 1998 | =1,367 | 9 | +125% | 1 in 36,211 |
| 1997 | =2,337 | 4 | 1 in 82,391 | |
| 1996 | n/a | under 3 |
* ONS’s boys’ 2016 file repeats the October total as September, so the 2016 births total is about 932 too low and 1 in X for 2016 is slightly too low. Rank follows ONS: names with the same count share a rank (shown with =). “Under 3” means the name was given to fewer than 3 babies that year, so ONS did not publish it.
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Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; National Records of Scotland; NISRA. Exact spellings are counted separately and names given to fewer than 3 babies are not published. Figures marked † are Baby Data calculations. How we calculate