Boy Names That Start With V

Boy names that start with V in the 2025 data

V is the twenty-second most common first letter for boys born in 2025: 12,405 of them, 0.7% of every boy in the file. It held twenty-second place a decade ago too, and its share has barely moved: 0.6% then, 0.7% now.

This list holds the 15 of those names that reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to boys rather than girls. The most common today is Vincent, #107 with 3,267 boys in 2025. 0 of the 15 are in this year's top 100, and 12 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Vivian is left out: it reached the top 500 among boys at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a boy. Together they account for 6,872 of those 12,405 boys — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Valentino, up from #676 in 2015 to #444 in 2025. Victor has gone the other way, from #161 to #209. The shortest name here is Van at 3 letters, the longest Valentino at 9.