Vaayu
#2,991 for boys in 2025, 41 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 49 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 186since 2019
Vaayu over time
Rank among boys' names. Vaayu has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,991 | 41 |
| 2024 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #2,952 | 42 |
| 2022 | #4,570 | 22 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #9,756 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Vaayu! It came in at #9,756, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2019, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Vaayu is popular in 2019
No state had 5 or more boys named Vaayu in 2019, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Vaayu
- 317 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #2,991)
- 3,305 spots since 2020 (#6,296 → #2,991)
- Debuted 2019
- Peaked 2024 at #2,674 (49 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,161 boys born in 2024 were named Vaayu (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 41,660 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 96.2% of all boys named Vaayu (179) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 7 | #9,756 (2019) | #9,756 |
| 2020s | 179 | #2,674 (2024) | #4,364 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vaayu in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 256,317 of them was named Vaayu, which outranked 31.0% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,889Zylo8
- #8,889Zylus8
- #8,889Zyrie8
- #9,756Vaayu7
- #9,756Aadhavan7
- #9,756Aagam7
- #9,756Aari7
- #10,803Aaban6
- #10,803Aadhan6
- #10,803Aamil6
Tied with 1,046 names at #9,756; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.