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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
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1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 49,942 of them was named Vy, which outranked 79.8% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,809Ysabel38
- #3,809Zayla38
- #3,809Zenaida38
- #3,876Vy37
- #3,876Aalyiah37
- #3,876Adora37
- #3,876Aishah37
- #3,942Aalyah36
- #3,942Aastha36
- #3,942Abigaile36
Tied with 65 names at #3,876; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.