Vayu
#2,125 for boys in 2025, 68 births
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 69 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 272since 2018
Vayu over time
Rank among boys' names. Vayu has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,125 | 68 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,113 | 69 |
| 2022 | #3,533 | 32 |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #6,703 | 12 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Vayu! It came in at #6,703, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2018–2019, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
Where Vayu is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#730 · 1 in 3,957
- New Jersey#757 · 1 in 5,046
- California#1,109 · 1 in 9,993
- Florida#1,814 · 1 in 18,845
- Texas#2,113 · 1 in 25,344
Best ever in a state: #639 in Washington, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #730 | 8 | 1 in 3,957 |
| New Jersey | #757 | 8 | 1 in 5,046 |
| California | #1,109 | 18 | 1 in 9,993 |
| Florida | #1,814 | 5 | 1 in 18,845 |
| Texas | #2,113 | 7 | 1 in 25,344 |
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See more about Vayu
- 512 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,125)
- 3,574 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #2,125)
- Debuted 2018
- Peaked 2023 at #2,113 (69 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,791 boys born in 2023 were named Vayu (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,119 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 92.6% of all boys named Vayu (252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 20 | #6,703 (2018) | #7,796 |
| 2020s | 252 | #2,113 (2023) | #3,536 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vayu in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 24,791 of them was named Vayu, which outranked 85.1% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,097Raleigh70
- #2,097Yisrael70
- #2,097Zian70
- #2,113Vayu69
- #2,113Conley69
- #2,113Elton69
- #2,113Emari69
- #2,129Abbas68
- #2,129Buck68
- #2,129Buckley68
Tied with 15 names at #2,113; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.