Vanity

Where Vanity comes from

From vanity.
— Wiktionary's entry for Vanity
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1982
    First appearance
    #10,517 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1988
    Peak, #1,261
    116 babies named Vanity — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,573.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Vanity 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.