Vi
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 1998 at #9,631
Given to girls 88.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1982 · 31 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 962since 1916
Vi 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 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | — | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | — | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | — | |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | — | |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 | — | |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | — | |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,536 | 28 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | — | |
| 2001 | #5,364 | 21 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #4,393 | 23 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #3,566 | 28 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | — | |
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| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
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| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | — | |
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| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
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| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Vi! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1944, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Vi
- 3,652 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #13,208)
- 4,802 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #13,208)
- 3,727 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1982 at #2,901 (31 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 54,623 girls born in 1982 were named Vi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.1% of all girls named Vi (251) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,417 (1916) | #4,417 |
| 1920s | 10 | #4,805 (1927) | #4,907 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,286 (1934) | #4,286 |
| 1940s | 13 | #3,388 (1945) | #3,981 |
| 1950s | 44 | #3,489 (1957) | #4,855 |
| 1960s | 30 | #4,019 (1963) | #5,253 |
| 1970s | 26 | #4,420 (1979) | #5,189 |
| 1980s | 251 | #2,901 (1982) | #3,516 |
| 1990s | 219 | #3,723 (1996) | #4,689 |
| 2000s | 190 | #4,536 (2003) | #6,462 |
| 2010s | 107 | #8,146 (2018) | #9,823 |
| 2020s | 62 | #7,640 (2023) | #9,751 |
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.
Vi in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 65,958 of them was named Vi, which outranked 74.9% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,393Zakia28
- #3,393Zipporah28
- #3,393Zuleika28
- #3,483Vi27
- #3,483Agatha27
- #3,483Aline27
- #3,483Alvina27
- #3,585Alejandrina26
- #3,585Alejandro26
- #3,585Aleksandra26
Tied with 101 names at #3,483; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 191,428 of them was named Vi, which outranked 47.6% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,162Zenon11
- #4,162Zephaniah11
- #4,162Zvi11
- #4,450Vi10
- #4,450Abigail10
- #4,450Adem10
- #4,450Adham10
- #4,786Abdulla9
- #4,786Abid9
- #4,786Abu9
Tied with 335 names at #4,450; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.