girls:
459 births since 1915
#5257 (8th percentile)
boys:
5.4k births since 1898
#1627 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1898
#3545 (54th percentile)
The name Von is the #3,545 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,862 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 54.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,627 (64.5% percentile) for all time with 5,403 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #5,257 (8.0% percentile) for all time with 459 births since 1915.
Von first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 1915 for girls). Birth data for Von is available in 117 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (117 years for boys and 57 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Von has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Von reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 16.9% percentile (ranked #553) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 60 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Von ranks #832 for boys (8.7% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 76.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Von reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #753) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Von".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Von. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Von is pronounced as vahn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vawn, at 25.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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