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
- Peak · girls
- 1902 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 932since 1902
Vesper 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 | #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 | — | |
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| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
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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.
See more about Vesper
- 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)
- Debuted 1902
- Peaked 1902 at #1,793 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 46.1% of all girls named Vesper (430) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Vesper in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 19,568 of them was named Vesper, which outranked 87.2% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,244Rhyan83
- #2,244Susana83
- #2,244Swayze83
- #2,258Vesper82
- #2,258Anora82
- #2,258Asher82
- #2,258Bree82
- #2,269Ahuva81
- #2,269Aislynn81
- #2,269Amore81
Tied with 10 names at #2,258; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 244,368 of them was named Vesper, which outranked 31.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,921Zydn8
- #8,921Zymarion8
- #8,921Zyrell8
- #9,763Vesper7
- #9,763Aaliyan7
- #9,763Aashrit7
- #9,763Abdalrahman7
- #10,821Aadhavan6
- #10,821Aalias6
- #10,821Aalim6
Tied with 1,057 names at #9,763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.