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
- —
- Too few births to compare
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.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Around the world
Vini has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.
Portuguesewhere Vini comes from · 1 name
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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