Vinicius
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vinicius is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 540◐
- PTPortugal1 in 6.3K
- AUAustralia1 in 56K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈394K ●
- #412 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 241 ●
- 1 in 540 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
169K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vinícius in NO Norway, AO Angola, JP Japan and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #73 | 392,108△ | 153K rec. | 1 in 540 | 392K | Vinicius | 241 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,074 | 1.4K rec. | — | 20 | Vinicius | 43 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,073 | 2K rec. | — | 2 | Vinicius | 62 |
| US United States | — | 1,544 | 7.4K rec. | 1 in 215K | 1.5K | Vinicius | 217 |
| PT Portugal | #478 | 1,323 | 429 rec. | — | listed | Vinicius | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 817 | 477 rec. | — | listed | Vinicius | 65 |
| DE Germany | — | 750 | 731 rec. | — | 1 | Vinicius | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | — | 519 | 278 rec. | — | — | Vinicius | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | #907 | 471 | 237 rec. | — | 1 | Vinicius | 13 |
| IT Italy | — | 431 | 215 rec. | — | 1 | Vinicius | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 415 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 121K | 415 | Vinicius | 71 |
| IE Ireland | #716 | 244 | 112 rec. | — | — | Vinicius | 31 |
Roughly 392K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 540). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese5.3M93%
- English400K7%
- ptbr8K1%
- Spanish5.4K1%
- French1.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 5,310,144 | 93% |
| English | 399,569 | 7% |
| ptbr | 8,042 | 1% |
| Spanish | 5,430 | 1% |
| French | 1,593 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Vinicius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name"
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 7 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 16 |
| 2006 | 21 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 12 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 15 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1992–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Vinicius de Moraesb. 1913BRBrazilian composer, singer, writer (1913–1980)
- Vinicius Zorin-Machadob. 1982BRBrazilian actor
- Lucas Vinicius Gonçalves Silvab. 1991BRBrazilian association football player
- Marcus Vinicius D'Almeidab. 1998BRBrazilian archer
- Vinicius Souzab. 1999BRBrazilian footballer
- Luan Santosb. 1999BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Vinicius Zanocelob. 2001BRBrazilian footballer
- Lázaro Viníciusb. 2002BRfootball player
- Marquinhosb. 2003BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Wesley Françab. 2003BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer (born 2003)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 392K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 390K | #70 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 377K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 305K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 305K | #161 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 302K | #51 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 162K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 144K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 109K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 78K | #334 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 71K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 52K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 238 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Vinicius?
- We estimate roughly 394 thousand people bear Vinicius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Vinicius have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 392 thousand people bear Vinicius in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vinicius.
- Where is Vinicius most common?
- Vinicius is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 540 people carrying it.
- How common is Vinicius compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vinicius is the 73rd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Vinicius a male or female name?
- Vinicius is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vinicius” — the 73rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.