girls:
138 births since 1893
#5578 (2nd percentile)
boys:
26.6k births since 1880
#702 (85th percentile)
overall:
26.7k births since 1880
#1552 (80th percentile)
The name Vance is the #1,552 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 26,721 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 80.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #702 (84.7% percentile) for all time with 26,583 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,578 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 138 births since 1893.
Vance has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1893 for girls).
The name Vance has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vance reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 52.0% percentile (ranked #317) with 303 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 303 births per million (ranked 52.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 2016, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Vance ranks #682 for boys (25.2% percentile) with 129 births per million, which is 42.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vance reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #555) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vance".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Vance. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Vance is pronounced as vans, which has 1 syllables.
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