Vanity

#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births

Peak · girls
1988 · 116 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,858
since 1982

Vanity over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Vanity has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #1,261, 1988girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#7,88513
2024#6,39418
2023#6,92216
2022#5,17225
2021#5,09125
2020#5,31423
2019#6,69817
2018#6,01020
2017#3,84839
2016#4,25034
2015#6,03621
2014#4,26934
2013#3,26749
2012#3,64443
2011#4,24434
2010#3,07554
2009#3,16153
2008#4,76131
2007#4,67531
2006#3,36848
2005#5,11325
2004#4,81627
2003#4,80426
2002#3,88933
2001#4,10730
2000#3,66435
1999#3,89530
1998#3,22238
1997#3,81529
1996#3,94227
1995#2,88041
1994#2,98839
1993#2,57348
1992#2,05966
1991#2,05866
1990#1,82878
1989#1,444102
1988#1,261116
1987#1,45989
1986#1,57276
1985#1,297103
1984#2,19245
1983#1,85856
1982#10,5175
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First appearance
1982

The first year at least five girls were named Vanity! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Vanity
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,491 spots since 2024 (#6,394#7,885)
  • 2,571 spots since 2020 (#5,314#7,885)
  • 1,849 spots since 2015 (#6,036#7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1982
  • Peaked 1988 at #1,261 (116 births)
  • Births halved by 1993, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 15,352
  • Highest: 1 in 15,352 girls born in 1988 were named Vanity (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 31.9% of all girls named Vanity (592) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s592#1,261 (1988)#2,700
1990s462#1,828 (1990)#2,926
2000s339#3,161 (2009)#4,236
2010s345#3,075 (2010)#4,534
2020s120#5,091 (2021)#6,130

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.

Vanity in 2006

girls
#3,368
48 births · 1 in 39,609 girls

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #3,368Vanity48
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 39,609 of them was named Vanity, which outranked 83.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vanity
  1. #3,316Theodora49
  2. #3,316Yanely49
  3. #3,316Zelda49
  4. #3,368Vanity48
  5. #3,368Aixa48
  6. #3,368Aleida48
  7. #3,368Aliyana48
  8. #3,414Addy47
  9. #3,414Alajah47
  10. #3,414Amberlee47

Tied with 45 names at #3,368; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006