Vayu
#2,125 for boys in 2025, 68 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 69 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 272since 2018
Vayu over time
Rank among boys' names. Vayu has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,125 | 68 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,113 | 69 |
| 2022 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Vayu! It came in at #6,703, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2018–2019, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
Where Vayu is popular in 2018
No state had 5 or more boys named Vayu in 2018, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Vayu
- 512 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,125)
- 3,574 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #2,125)
- Debuted 2018
- Peaked 2023 at #2,113 (69 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,791 boys born in 2023 were named Vayu (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,119 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 92.6% of all boys named Vayu (252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 20 | #6,703 (2018) | #7,796 |
| 2020s | 252 | #2,113 (2023) | #3,536 |
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.
Vayu in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 151,347 of them was named Vayu, which outranked 52.5% 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).
- #6,345Zyden13
- #6,345Zymier13
- #6,345Zyree13
- #6,703Vayu12
- #6,703Abdalla12
- #6,703Abdiaziz12
- #6,703Abdulbasit12
- #7,136Abhiraj11
- #7,136Aceon11
- #7,136Adaiah11
Tied with 432 names at #6,703; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.