Vinicius
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vinicius 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.
- 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 540 (inferred from the name graph)
392,108 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vinícius in JP Japan.
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
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(measured from records)
Vinicius 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #58 | 392,108 | 1 in 540 | 392K | Vinicius | 248 |
| US United States | — | 1,546 | 1 in 215K | 1.5K | Vinicius | 242 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Vinícius | 10 |
| PT Portugal | #459 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Vinicius | 84 |
| FR France | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Vinicius | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | #821 | 195 | 1 in 17K | 195 | Vinicius | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Vinicius | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 120 | — | 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 40 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) | 2010 | 71K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 52K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 42K | — |
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
- 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.
- What are other forms of the name Vinicius?
- In the etymology graph, Vinicio is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vinicius have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 392 thousand people named Vinicius, more than in any other country we hold, 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 the name Vinicius?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 392,108 people named Vinicius in 2022, about 1 in 540 residents.
- How common is Vinicius compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vinicius is the 58th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vinicius?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/viniciusThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Vinicius” — the 58th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.