Vance

Where Vance comes from

From a Southern English dialectal form of Old English fenn (“marsh, bog”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Vance
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Vance through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1969
    Peak, #328
    555 babies named Vance, the most in any year.
  3. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #526.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Vance in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.