Given name & surname

Vini

Vini is a masculine given name from Portuguese, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. It is used in Portuguese.

Original PortugueseVinícius

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Vini comes from Portuguese, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In French usage, Vini is a diminutive of Vinicius.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2022. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Vini through the years

Babies since 1880
6
0 boys · 6 girls
Most popular year
2022
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20220.0
Vini in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2022–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 236 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Vini’s family of names

In French usage, Vini is a diminutive of Vinicius. In Malayalam usage, Vini is a Roman-alphabet rendering of വിനി. In Portuguese usage, Vini is a diminutive of Vinícius.

Walk Vini’s family in the name graph

ViniവിനിΒίνηViniciusVinícius

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Vini has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.

PortugueseMalayalam

Portuguesewhere Vini comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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