Vaness

Last seen for girls in 2003 at #15,784

Peak · girls
1988 · 26 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
288
since 1959

Vaness over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Vaness has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201959peak #3,585, 1988girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1996#10,5677
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First appearance
1959

The first year at least five girls were named Vaness! It came in at #6,245, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1959–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Vaness is popular in 1959

No state had 5 or more girls named Vaness in 1959, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Vaness
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2003
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1959
  • Peaked 1988 at #3,585 (26 births)
  • Births halved by 1991, 3 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 68,494
  • Highest: 1 in 68,494 girls born in 1988 were named Vaness (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 365,429 girls born in 2003 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 50.7% of all girls named Vaness (146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,245 (1959)#6,245
1960s5#6,767 (1964)#6,767
1970s49#5,427 (1979)#6,502
1980s146#3,585 (1988)#5,145
1990s78#4,523 (1990)#9,502
2000s5#15,784 (2003)#15,784

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.

Vaness in 1959

girls
#6,245
5 births · 1 in 404,692 girls

Top girls' names in 1959

  1. #1Mary54,502
  2. #2Susan41,617
  3. #3Linda40,410
  4. #4Karen36,784
  5. #5Donna36,468
  6. #6Patricia35,223
  7. #7Debra31,388
  8. #8Cynthia30,186
  9. #9Deborah29,546
  10. #10Lisa25,699
  11. #6,245Vaness5
More about 1959

girls

2,023,462 girls got a published name in 1959; 1 in 404,692 of them was named Vaness, which outranked 13.3% of the 7,202 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vaness
  1. #5,566Zettie6
  2. #5,566Zipporah6
  3. #5,566Zonia6
  4. #6,245Vaness5
  5. #6,245Abbigail5
  6. #6,245Abelina5
  7. #6,245Abigale5

Tied with 957 names at #6,245; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1958
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,090Alesia#1,985 → #895
  2. ↑ 948Tori#1,791 → #843
  3. ↑ 440Taryn#1,211 → #771
  4. ↑ 437Venus#1,007 → #570
  5. ↑ 393Vilma#1,364 → #971
Fallers
  1. ↓ 283Dani#961 → #1,244
  2. ↓ 257Nicki#973 → #1,230
  3. ↓ 235Lanita#973 → #1,208
  4. ↓ 219Concetta#973 → #1,192
  5. ↓ 197Gisele#766 → #963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1959 →