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 | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
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| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 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 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 50,283 of them was named Vashon, which outranked 74.5% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,455Yalanda30
- #2,455Zaida30
- #2,455Zelda30
- #2,506Vashon29
- #2,506Adelita29
- #2,506Akilah29
- #2,506Anessa29
- #2,565Adelaida28
- #2,565Alba28
- #2,565Amye28
Tied with 58 names at #2,506; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 16,235 of them was named Vashon, which outranked 86.3% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #801Gus97
- #801Hal97
- #801Kelley97
- #804Vashon96
- #804Elvin96
- #804Kenyon96
- #804Kimberly96
- #810Augustine95
- #810Dwain95
- #810Fidel95
Tied with 5 names at #804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.