Vail

Where Vail comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Vail.

Vail through the years
  1. 1952
    First appearance
    #5,563 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2008
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 2018
    Peak, #3,050
    53 babies named Vail, the most in any year.
  4. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #5,793.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Vail hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.