Boy Names Starting With V

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin V boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

How common V names are

In the 2025 top 1,000 for boys, V supplies 9 names and 0.56% of the births, which places it 22nd of the 26 initials by share. The letter's #1 name, Vincent, holds overall rank #107 with 3,267 births; its 50th and last name, Valerian, was recorded 23 times at #4,526.

That 0.56% is V's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 9-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.

V names across the decades

Counting only names inside each snapshot's top 200, the V tally for boys runs 3 in 1955, 3 in 1965, 2 in 1975, 2 in 1985, 2 in 1995, 2 in 2005, 2 in 2015 — highest in 1955 and 1965 (3 each), lowest in 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015 (2 each). The leading name was Vincent (#99) in 1955 and Vincent (#109) in 2015. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 1 V name, led by Vincent at #107. 2 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: Vincent and Victor. 2 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appear in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: Vincent and Victor.

V names held 0.50% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 0.56% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 0.36%. The first-letter trends guide sets V's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.

Faded and new

Every V boy name that appears in any snapshot's top 200 is also on the 2025 list of 50 above, so no faded names exist for this letter at the committed depths.

In the other direction, 47 of the 50 names on the 2025 list are absent from every snapshot top 200: the first 12 by rank are Valentino (#444), Vicente (#589), Valentin (#660), Vincenzo (#674), Vihaan (#910), Veer (#942), Van (#972), Vance (#1,080), Ved (#1,131), Vaughn (#1,153), Viktor (#1,238), and Valor (#1,254), and the remaining 35 follow in the table above.

Read both lists against the depths that produce them — 200 ranks per snapshot year, 50 names for V in 2025 with the last at #4,526: a name missing from a snapshot may sit below rank 200 that year, and a name missing from the 2025 list may sit below Valerian; the committed files do not say.

Shape of the list

Four letters or fewer describes 11 of the 50 names on the 2025 table (Veer, for one); five to seven letters, 31 (Vincent, for one); eight or more, 8 (Valentino, for one). The longest spellings on the 2025 list, at 9 letters, are Valentino and Valentine; the shortest, at 3, are Van, Ved, Von, and Vir.

41 of the 50 names rank past #1,000, beyond the top-1,000 list the generator's 2025 era samples; the rest divide into 0 inside the top 100, 3 at ranks 101–500, and 6 at 501–1,000.

1 name on this list also appears on the 2025 girls' V list, each ranked separately per sex by the SSA: Valentine (#1,807 for boys, #2,539 for girls). Second letters on the 2025 list number 6; i leads them, opening 23 of the 50 names (Vi-), with Va- (16) next.

V boy names: questions answered from the data

Other letters

Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with V.

Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.