The most used girls' names beginning with V in 2025

V is a small letter carried by one large name. The ONS counted 3,134 girls given a V name in 2025 across 105 spellings, and Violet alone accounts for 1,061 of them, or 34 per cent of the letter. Only Violet is inside the top 100; Victoria, the next name down, sits at 312 babies and rank 160.

ONS rank (all girls' names)	Name	Babies in 2025	Meaning and origin
37	Violet	1,061	The flower, from Latin viola through Old French
160	Victoria	312	Latin victoria, victory, and the Roman goddess of victory
207	Vienna	229	The Austrian capital; the city name is Celtic and disputed
272	Valentina	169	Feminine of Valentinus, from Latin valens, strong or healthy
403	Vivienne	101	French feminine of Vivianus, from Latin vivus, alive
436	Verity	92	English virtue name from Latin veritas, truth
531	Valencia	75	The Spanish city, from Latin valentia, strength
684	Valerie	54	French from the Roman family name Valerius, from valere, to be strong
696	Vamika	53	Sanskrit, a name of the goddess Durga; readings vary and none is settled
719	Vanessa	51	Coined by Jonathan Swift from the name Esther Vanhomrigh; no older etymology
719	Vera	51	Russian vera, faith; Latin vera, true, is a separate later reading
763	Veronica	48	Latin reshaping of Berenice, Greek for bringing victory, influenced by vera icon, true image

The most used boys' names beginning with V in 2025

The boys' letter is slightly smaller at 2,719 babies across 90 names, and it is dominated by one root rather than one name. Vinnie at 851, Vincent at 560 and Vinny at 124 are three ONS rows for the same name, and together they cover 1,535 babies, more than half the letter. Two of them are inside the top 100.

ONS rank (all boys' names)	Name	Babies in 2025	Meaning and origin
58	Vinnie	851	English pet form of Vincent, from Latin vincere, to conquer
93	Vincent	560	Latin vincens, conquering
312	Victor	143	Latin victor, winner
342	Vinny	124	A spelling of Vinnie, from Vincent, conquering
427	Vihaan	93	Sanskrit, usually read as dawn or first ray of light; the reading is modern
539	Veer	72	Sanskrit vira, brave or a hero
735	Vlad	47	Slavic short form of Vladimir or Vladislav, from volod, rule
782	Ved	42	Sanskrit veda, knowledge, the name of the Hindu scriptures
798	Valentino	41	Italian form of Valentinus, from Latin valens, strong
896	Vincenzo	35	Italian form of Vincent, conquering
934	Viktor	33	Continental spelling of Victor, Latin for winner
934	Vivaan	33	Sanskrit; modern readings vary from full of life to rays of the morning sun

Which V names are rising and which are falling

Climbing

V produced the two largest single-year climbs in the entire 2025 boys' top 100. Vinnie gained 33 places to 58th and Vincent gained 25 and entered the top 100 as a new entry at 93rd. Over ten years Vinnie is up 129 places and Vincent 51. On the girls' side Violet gained 5 places and is up 31 since 2015.

Slipping

Nothing in the V lists fell. All three published V names rose in 2025 and all three stand higher than they did in 2015, which V shares with only P and Y. That is a real finding, but it rests on three names: the other 192 V names across both lists are below the top 100 and have no published direction at all.

What the published change columns cannot tell you

Vienna, Valentina, Vivienne, Verity, Valencia, Valerie, Vamika, Vanessa, Victor, Vihaan, Veer and Ved all have exact 2025 counts and no change figure. Vihaan at 93 and Veer at 72 sit in a South Asian group that is clearly growing in absolute terms across the letter, but the ONS publishes nothing that would let that be stated as a rank movement.

How big a letter V really is

V is twenty-first for girls and twenty-second for boys by babies named, and twenty-first and twenty-second by distinct names, so it is small in both senses at once. What distinguishes it from the other small letters is that its leading names are entirely mainstream: Violet and Vincent are not unusual names, they are simply names most families do not choose.

The letter has an unusually clean split between the Latin group and a South Asian group. Violet, Victoria, Valentina, Vivienne, Verity, Vincent, Victor and Valentino all come from Latin roots. Vamika, Veda, Vihaan, Veer, Ved, Vivaan, Vyom and Viraj form a separate Sanskrit-derived set, and between them they cover several hundred babies in a letter of only a few thousand.

Further V names in the published 2025 list

The ONS full list does not stop at the tables above, and the counts stay exact all the way down. For girls the next names in order of use are Veda at 44, Vivian at 43, Valeria at 35, Viola at 32, Vaani at 25, Vittoria at 23, Vesper at 21, Vienna-Rose at 21, Vivien at 21, Vanya at 19, Viha at 18, Vedika at 17. For boys they are Vyom at 31, Viraj at 30, Viggo at 26, Vedant at 24, Viaan at 24, Vladimir at 23, Vardaan at 21, Vicente at 20, Viyaan at 18, Viyan at 17, Vito at 16, Valentine at 14. Each figure is the exact number of babies registered with that exact spelling during 2025, taken from the ONS full-list table rather than from the top 100. The letter carries 105 different girls' names and 90 different boys' names in the published data altogether, and any name given to two or fewer babies has been removed from it.

Choosing a V name: what the data changes

If you want a name with documented momentum behind it, Vinnie and Vincent are the two clearest cases in the 2025 boys' data, with the largest published one-year rises of any names in the top 100. If you want the opposite, Verity at 92 and Vivienne at 101 are established Latin names given to fewer than a hundred girls each in the whole of England and Wales.

Baby names starting with V: girls and boys