Vy
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · Last seen for boys in 1997 at #9,265
Given to girls 97.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 48 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,289since 1979
Vy over time
Rank among girls' names. Vy 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 | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,443 | 23 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,486 | 24 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,711 | 42 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,222 | 52 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,786 | 42 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,033 | 51 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,009 | 47 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,443 | 36 | — | |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 | — | |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #3,615 | 30 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,340 | 24 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Vy! It came in at #8,061, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Vy
- 111 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,554)
- 771 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #5,554)
- 573 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #5,554)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2000 at #2,940 (48 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 36,005 girls born in 2004 were named Vy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,940 in 2000, was only 1 in 37,834 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.3% of all girls named Vy (416) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,061 |
| 1980s | 188 | #3,340 (1983) | #3,965 |
| 1990s | 255 | #3,443 (1999) | #4,192 |
| 2000s | 416 | #2,940 (2000) | #3,631 |
| 2010s | 290 | #3,711 (2012) | #4,852 |
| 2020s | 133 | #4,746 (2023) | #5,618 |
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.
Vy in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 79,106 of them was named Vy, which outranked 73.0% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,003Van25
- #4,003Viktoria25
- #4,003Yareli25
- #4,120Vy24
- #4,120Adelle24
- #4,120Adriann24
- #4,120Alaine24
- #4,230Aaren23
- #4,230Adia23
- #4,230Adreana23
Tied with 109 names at #4,120; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 410,808 of them was named Vy, which outranked 14.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,376 names at #8,117; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.