Vega
#4,460 for girls in 2025, 31 births · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to girls 79.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 52 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 746since 1918
Vega 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,460 | 31 | #6,803 | 12 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #3,765 | 40 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #3,801 | 39 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #3,293 | 48 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #5,709 | 24 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #5,233 | 26 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,505 | 12 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | — | |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Vega! It came in at #4,809, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1956, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Vega
- 568 spots since 2024 (#3,892 → #4,460)
- 188 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #4,460)
- 316 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #4,460)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2019 at #3,085 (52 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,276 girls born in 2019 were named Vega (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,847 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.6% of all girls named Vega (333) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,809 (1918) | #4,809 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,377 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 9 | #9,479 (1999) | #9,479 |
| 2000s | 166 | #5,233 (2006) | #7,616 |
| 2010s | 333 | #3,085 (2019) | #4,575 |
| 2020s | 222 | #3,428 (2023) | #3,999 |
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.
Vega in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 41,003 of them was named Vega, which outranked 78.8% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,703Wynne41
- #3,703Zaylie41
- #3,703Zoella41
- #3,765Vega40
- #3,765Abigaelle40
- #3,765Addelynn40
- #3,765Alanii40
- #3,827Aalani39
- #3,827Aaria39
- #3,827Adalynne39
Tied with 61 names at #3,765; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 124,715 of them was named Vega, which outranked 57.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,874Zaiyden15
- #5,874Zaryan15
- #5,874Zoravar15
- #6,147Vega14
- #6,147Abdelrahman14
- #6,147Abijah14
- #6,147Aboubacar14
- #6,479Aadam13
- #6,479Aadil13
- #6,479Abdalla13
Tied with 331 names at #6,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.