Vail
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 79.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 53 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 434since 1952
Vail 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #4,893 | 27 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #4,147 | 35 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,346 | 48 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | — | |
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| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | — | #12,367 | 5 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | — | |
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| 2002 | — | #10,667 | 5 | |
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| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | — | |
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| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1952
The first year at least five girls were named Vail! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
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Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,223 spots since 2024 (#4,893 → #6,116)
- 2,038 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #6,116)
- 2,770 spots since 2015 (#3,346 → #6,116)
Rise & fade · girls
66 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 2018 at #3,050 (53 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 4 yrs 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 32,096
- Highest: 1 in 32,096 girls born in 2018 were named Vail (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 54.1% of all girls named Vail (235) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #5,563 (1952) | #5,563 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #7,995 (1970) | #7,995 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 6 | #12,426 (1998) | #12,426 |
| 2000s | 36 | #7,828 (2004) | #11,908 |
| 2010s | 235 | #3,050 (2018) | #7,303 |
| 2020s | 147 | #4,078 (2020) | #5,589 |
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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