Vail
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 79.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 53 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 434since 1952
Vail over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,346 | 48 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
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| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
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| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Vail! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Vail
- 1,223 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #6,116)
- 2,038 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #6,116)
- 2,770 spots since 2015 (#3,346 → #6,116)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 2018 at #3,050 (53 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,096 girls born in 2018 were named Vail (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 54.1% of all girls named Vail (235) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,563 (1952) | #5,563 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #7,995 (1970) | #7,995 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 6 | #12,426 (1998) | #12,426 |
| 2000s | 36 | #7,828 (2004) | #11,908 |
| 2010s | 235 | #3,050 (2018) | #7,303 |
| 2020s | 147 | #4,078 (2020) | #5,589 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vail in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 32,096 of them was named Vail, which outranked 83.2% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,004Suzanne54
- #3,004Tyra54
- #3,004Xenia54
- #3,050Vail53
- #3,050Adia53
- #3,050Alaynah53
- #3,050Aleida53
- #3,107Abigayle52
- #3,107Acelyn52
- #3,107Alaa52
Tied with 56 names at #3,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 302,693 of them was named Vail, which outranked 23.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,670Zyen7
- #9,670Zylar7
- #9,670Zylus7
- #10,760Vail6
- #10,760Aabid6
- #10,760Aadhiran6
- #10,760Aadyant6
- #12,156Aabir5
- #12,156Aagam5
- #12,156Aakif5
Tied with 1,395 names at #10,760; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.