Vashti

Where Vashti comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew וַשְׁתִּי (vaštī).
— Wiktionary's entry for Vashti
  • Persian
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #813 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #773
    20 babies named Vashti — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,238.
  4. 1945
    Vashti Bunyan born
    English singer-songwriter
  5. 1998
    Vashti Cunningham born
    American athletics competitor
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Persian of biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Vashti Cunningham · American athletics competitor, born 1998
  • Vashti Bunyan · English singer-songwriter, born 1945
  • Vashti Murphy McKenzie · American bishop, born 1947
  • Vashti Harrison · artist, motion picture producers and director, author, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.