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U.S. Vice President JD Vance and wife Usha welcome fourth child

July 20, 2026 · 1 min read

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, announced the birth of their fourth child, a baby boy named Alec Neel Vance, on Sunday, July 19.

In a statement shared on social media , the couple wrote: “We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning. Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother.”

The Vances are already parents to Ewan (9), Vivek (6), and Mirabel (4). Vance was received into the Catholic Church in 2019 and recently released a book about his faith journey, titled “ Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith .”

Usha Vance, who is Hindu and has said she has no plans to convert , has shared that the family attends Mass together and sends their children to Catholic schools.

She said in a June 2025 interview with Megan McCain that after her husband converted, “we had to have a lot of real conversations about how” to raise their children.

“When you convert to Catholicism it comes with several important obligations, like to raise your child in the faith and all that,” she said.

The couple allows their children to discern whether to be baptized; their son Ewan has since…

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Đorđe Petrović

Congratulations to the Vances on their baby boy. It is nice that the family goes to mass together and that the children go to Catholic schools, even though mom remains Hindu. That with discussions about upbringing and children choosing their own baptism seems fair to me.

Nicolae Stoica

Congratulations to the Vances on their baby boy Alec. It's interesting how they were serious about Catholic obligations after JD's conversion and yet let the children choose their own baptism. At least they all go to mass together, that's what matters.

Marko Savić

Congratulations to the Vances on little Alec. It is nice that everyone goes to mass together and that the children go to Catholic schools, just as Đorđe wrote. It's still strange to me that their children choose for themselves whether to be baptized - that's not how we do it.