Vashon
Last seen for girls in 1981 at #6,323 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 91.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 96 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 767since 1972
Vashon 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
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| 2018 | — | #12,156 | 5 | |
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | #9,664 | 7 | |
| 2015 | — | #9,568 | 7 | |
| 2014 | — | #12,108 | 5 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,050 | 11 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,767 | 8 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,436 | 13 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,698 | 10 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,370 | 21 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,246 | 15 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,035 | 15 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,721 | 22 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,103 | 26 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,197 | 16 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,064 | 24 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,185 | 15 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,854 | 16 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,020 | 15 | |
| 1992 | — | #3,920 | 15 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,476 | 12 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
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| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,457 | 9 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,482 | 12 | |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | — | #2,375 | 19 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #1,743 | 30 |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,177 | 21 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #1,753 | 28 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #923 | 77 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 | #804 | 96 |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Vashon! It came in at #3,152, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Vashon
- 2,440 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 2,348 spots in 1973 (#3,152 → #804)
- Biggest drop: 830 spots in 1975 (#923 → #1,753)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1973 at #804 (96 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1973–1974
- Highest: 1 in 16,235 boys born in 1973 were named Vashon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.4% of all boys named Vashon (287) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1981, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 287 | #804 (1973) | #2,285 |
| 1980s | 79 | #3,482 (1982) | #4,577 |
| 1990s | 162 | #3,064 (1997) | #4,115 |
| 2000s | 157 | #3,721 (2001) | #5,365 |
| 2010s | 72 | #5,741 (2010) | #9,402 |
| 2020s | 10 | #12,008 (2025) | #12,124 |
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.
Vashon in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 162,161 of them was named Vashon, which outranked 45.2% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,991Yechiel11
- #2,991Zeb11
- #2,991Zev11
- #3,152Vashon10
- #3,152Aden10
- #3,152Adrion10
- #3,152Aidan10
- #3,344Abran9
- #3,344Adaryll9
- #3,344Aimee9
Tied with 191 names at #3,152; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.