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Vance
Pronounced /ˈvæns/
Rank in 2024
#992
Born in 2024
226
Peak year
1969 · #328
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 226 boys were named Vance, about 1 in every 7,590.
- It peaked in 1969 with 555 babies, ranked #328.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 26,811 boys have been named Vance since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Vance per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,860 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Silent: 2,877 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Boomers: 6,648 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,262 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,177 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,762 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,942 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a Southern English dialectal form of Old English fenn (“marsh, bog”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈvæns/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Vance, CC BY-SA 4.0.