Vinícius

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vinícius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Learned borrowing from Latin Vinicius, a Roman gens name.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 540(measured from records)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 11K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 127K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

392,108 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
248 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 540 (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ViníciusLatin(measured from records)
비니시우스Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vinicius in BR Brazil, US United States, FR France and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Learned borrowing from Latin Vinicius, a Roman gens name.

Sources 1

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vinícius counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Vinícius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#58392,1081 in 540392KVinicius248
US United States—1,5461 in 215K1.5KVinicius242
JP Japan—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 110K—Vinícius10
PT Portugal#459≈940 est.≈1 in 11KlistedVinicius84
FR France—≈530 est.≈1 in 127K—Vinicius4
UY Uruguay#8211951 in 17K195Vinicius12
PY Paraguay—≈160 est.≈1 in 44K—Vinicius15
NO Norway—≈130 est.≈1 in 41K120—5

392,108 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vinícius is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Vinìcius, Vínicius, Vinicíus, Vinicius

  • Hindi given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Russia, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Vinicius, Vinicíus, Vínicius

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Türkiye, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Vinicius, Винисиус, Vínicius

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Vinicius, Vínicius

  • Turkish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Türkiye

    Also written Vinicius, Vinicíus

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

196019802000Vinícius Eutrópio, b. 1966Vinícius de Oliveira, b. 1985Vinícius Goes Barbosa de Souza, b. 1991Victor Vinícius Coelho dos Santos, b. 1993Vinícius Araújo, b. 1993Vinícius Santos Silva, b. 1993Carlos Vinícius, b. 1995Vinícius Moreira de Lima, b. 1996Vinícius Júnior, b. 2000Abner Vinícius, b. 2000

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(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Vinícius
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—305K#160
PT PortugalIRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos———

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Vinícius mean, and where does it come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin Vinicius, a Roman gens name. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Vinícius a male or female name?
Vinícius 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.
What are other forms of the name Vinícius?
In the etymology graph, Vinicio is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Vinícius have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 392 thousand people named Vinícius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vinicius.
Where is Vinícius most common?
Vinícius is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 540 people carrying it.
How common is the name Vinícius?
In Brazil, the national register counted 392,108 people named Vinícius in 2022, about 1 in 540 residents.
How common is Vinícius compared with other names?
In Brazil, Vinícius is the 58th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Vinícius” — the 58th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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