Vashti
Vashti is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 793rd, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192240 births
- Best rank
- #793in 1902
- Since 1882
- 2,343people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,343 girls have been named Vashti in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 40 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1990s alone account for 14%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vashti | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 20 | |
| 1890s | 100 | |
| 1900s | 137 | |
| 1910s | 219 | |
| 1920s | 245 | |
| 1930s | 137 | |
| 1940s | 107 | |
| 1950s | 105 | |
| 1960s | 71 | |
| 1970s | 171 | |
| 1980s | 241 | |
| 1990s | 327 | |
| 2000s | 226 | |
| 2010s | 179 | |
| 2020s | 58 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Vashti was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Vashti
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ladypeak 2016
- Olivapeak 1990
- Claribelpeak 1984
- Estherpeak 1918
- Signepeak 1915
- Arlenapeak 1919
- Laurenapeak 1920
- Erapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.