Vinícius
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The story
Vinicius comes from an ancient Roman family name whose deeper root is uncertain; proposed links with wine or the vine should remain possibilities, not settled translations. In Brazil, the name acquired unmistakable music through Vinicius de Moraes. The poet and diplomat wrote plays, sonnets, and song lyrics, and his collaborations helped shape bossa nova. With Antônio Carlos Jobim, he created songs including The Girl from Ipanema, sending an intimate Rio sound around the world. That cultural story is richer than treating the name as a response to one current football star. Football does add another lively chapter through Vinícius Júnior, but art, sport, and family use coexist rather than form a simple chain of cause. Vini is a natural everyday form, light enough for a stadium chant or kitchen conversation. The unaccented Vinicius is standard in Portuguese; the accent seen in Vinícius marks pronunciation under modern spelling rules. The name holds Roman antiquity, Brazilian poetry, bossa nova, and contemporary football without needing to pretend its oldest mystery has been solved.
How popular is Vinícius around the world?
Vinícius does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. At the 2022 census, 392,108 people in Brazil were named Vinícius, the 70th most common name, with a median age of 21.
Vinícius is on the official records of Brazil, Argentina, Spain and England and Wales.
United States
under 5 a year
Vinícius does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Brazil
1 in 520
At the 2022 census, 392,108 people in Brazil were named Vinícius, the 70th most common name, with a median age of 21.
Among people named Vinícius living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 15,384 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Argentina
1 in 33,000
In Argentina, 20 newborns were given the name Vinícius in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Spain
1 in 110,000
In Spain, 415 residents are named Vinícius, ranked 2,621st among men, with a mean age of 29.7 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
England and Wales
1 in 120,000
In England and Wales, 5 boys named Vinícius were born in 2025, ranked 3,684th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Austria
last on record 2022
Vinícius is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Montevideo City
last on record 2010
Vinícius is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
South Australia
last on record 2015
Vinícius is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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