# Vance (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vance/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “marsh”, “bog” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈvæns/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 27,150 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 27,012 / 138 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 29, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From a Southern English dialectal form of Old English fenn (“marsh, bog”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 6 | 4,769 |
| 1920 | 9 | 3,573 |
| 1921 | 6 | 5,058 |
| 1922 | 5 | 5,729 |
| 1923 | 5 | 5,675 |
| 1925 | 5 | 5,712 |
| 1926 | 5 | 5,564 |
| 1928 | 5 | 5,374 |
| 1930 | 7 | 4,015 |
| 1932 | 7 | 3,879 |
| 1946 | 7 | 4,393 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,527 |
| 1963 | 5 | 7,604 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,737 |
| 1988 | 6 | 11,744 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 300 | 756 |
| 2012 | 255 | 842 |
| 2013 | 245 | 869 |
| 2014 | 246 | 883 |
| 2015 | 318 | 759 |
| 2016 | 248 | 882 |
| 2017 | 265 | 836 |
| 2018 | 220 | 948 |
| 2019 | 245 | 894 |
| 2020 | 221 | 974 |
| 2021 | 242 | 935 |
| 2022 | 229 | 988 |
| 2023 | 237 | 955 |
| 2024 | 226 | 997 |
| 2025 | 200 | 1,080 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 3,651 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## In other languages

- Chinese: 萬斯 /万斯

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.