Vesper
#2,458 for girls in 2025, 72 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 92.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1902 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 932since 1902
Vesper over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #2,458 | 72 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #2,749 | 62 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #2,258 | 82 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,530 | 70 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | — | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
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| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
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| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1902
The first year at least five girls were named Vesper! It came in at #1,793, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1902–1911, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 291 spots since 2024 (#2,749 → #2,458)
- 1,088 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #2,458)
- 1,020 spots since 2015 (#3,478 → #2,458)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1902
- Peaked 1902 at #1,793 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 19,568
- Highest: 1 in 19,568 girls born in 2023 were named Vesper (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,323 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,793 in 1902, was only 1 in 52,815 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 46.1% of all girls named Vesper (430) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2008
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1900s | 10 | #1,793 (1902) | #1,947 |
| 1910s | 47 | #2,360 (1912) | #3,341 |
| 1920s | 34 | #3,097 (1920) | #4,163 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 37 | #4,805 (2009) | #9,319 |
| 2010s | 430 | #2,530 (2017) | #3,804 |
| 2020s | 374 | #2,258 (2023) | #2,805 |
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.
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