Vanity
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1988 · 116 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,858since 1982
Vanity over time
Rank among girls' names. Vanity has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 |
| 2012 | #3,644 | 43 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,075 | 54 |
| 2009 | #3,161 | 53 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #3,368 | 48 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #4,816 | 27 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 |
| 2002 | #3,889 | 33 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #3,664 | 35 |
| 1999 | #3,895 | 30 |
| 1998 | #3,222 | 38 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 |
| 1996 | #3,942 | 27 |
| 1995 | #2,880 | 41 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 |
| 1993 | #2,573 | 48 |
| 1992 | #2,059 | 66 |
| 1991 | #2,058 | 66 |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 |
| 1989 | #1,444 | 102 |
| 1988 | #1,261 | 116 |
| 1987 | #1,459 | 89 |
| 1986 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 1985 | #1,297 | 103 |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Vanity! It came in at #10,517, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Vanity is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,132 · 1 in 17,886
- California#2,485 · 1 in 25,646
Best ever in a state: #386 in Mississippi, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #2,132 | 9 | 1 in 17,886 |
| California | #2,485 | 8 | 1 in 25,646 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Vanity
- 1,491 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #7,885)
- 2,571 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #7,885)
- 1,849 spots since 2015 (#6,036 → #7,885)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 1988 at #1,261 (116 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,352 girls born in 1988 were named Vanity (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.9% of all girls named Vanity (592) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 592 | #1,261 (1988) | #2,700 |
| 1990s | 462 | #1,828 (1990) | #2,926 |
| 2000s | 339 | #3,161 (2009) | #4,236 |
| 2010s | 345 | #3,075 (2010) | #4,534 |
| 2020s | 120 | #5,091 (2021) | #6,130 |
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.
Vanity in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 35,811 of them was named Vanity, which outranked 83.1% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,218Tyasia50
- #3,218Zailey50
- #3,218Zayleigh50
- #3,267Vanity49
- #3,267Addy49
- #3,267Adelynne49
- #3,267Akemi49
- #3,314Acadia48
- #3,314Addisen48
- #3,314Adora48
Tied with 46 names at #3,267; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.