Vesper

#2,458 for girls in 2025, 72 births · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 92.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
#1,793
1902 · 5 births
Debut · girls
1902
5 births
In top 100 · girls
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of 146 years
Total births · girls
932
since 1902

Vesper over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202016peak #1,793, 1902peak #2,956, 1917girlsboys
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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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2025#2,45872#8,9108
2024#2,74962#6,83212
2023#2,25882#9,7637
2022#2,66165#10,8636
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First appearance
1902

The first year at least five girls were named Vesper! It came in at #1,793, and was given to 5 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 1902–1911, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Vesper is popular in 2016

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNHWashington: #869 for girls · 7 births · 1 in 4,592 girlsWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Vesper, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Washington#869 · 1 in 4,592

Best ever in a state: #869 in Washington, 2016.

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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 Vesper
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 291 spots since 2024 (#2,749 → #2,458)
  • 1,088 spots since 2020 (#3,546 → #2,458)
  • 1,020 spots since 2015 (#3,478 → #2,458)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1902
  • Peaked 1902 at #1,793 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1903, 1 yr 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 19,568
  • Highest: 1 in 19,568 girls born in 2023 were named Vesper (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 22,323 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,793 in 1902, was only 1 in 52,815 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 46.1% of all girls named Vesper (430) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2008
  • Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s10#1,793 (1902)#1,947
1910s47#2,360 (1912)#3,341
1920s34#3,097 (1920)#4,163
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2000s37#4,805 (2009)#9,319
2010s430#2,530 (2017)#3,804
2020s374#2,258 (2023)#2,805

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.

Vesper in 2016

girls
#3,010
55 births · 1 in 32,219 girls

Top girls' names in 2016

  1. #1Emma19,550
  2. #2Olivia19,414
  3. #3Ava16,354
  4. #4Sophia16,185
  5. #5Isabella14,863
  6. #6Mia14,464
  7. #7Charlotte13,118
  8. #8Abigail11,796
  9. #9Emily11,006
  10. #10Amelia10,809
  11. #3,010Vesper55
More about 2016

girls

1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 32,219 of them was named Vesper, which outranked 84.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vesper
  1. #2,966Yasmina56
  2. #2,966Yatzil56
  3. #2,966Yelena56
  4. #3,010Vesper55
  5. #3,010Alexus55
  6. #3,010Alize55
  7. #3,010Alyce55
  8. #3,060Addy54
  9. #3,060Adora54
  10. #3,060Alizah54

Tied with 49 names at #3,010; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2015
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,389Kehlani#3,254 → #865
  2. ↑ 612Royalty#1,146 → #534
  3. ↑ 481Saoirse#1,448 → #967
  4. ↑ 396Ophelia#978 → #582
  5. ↑ 364Aitana#915 → #551
Fallers
  1. ↓ 542Caitlin#610 → #1,152
  2. ↓ 451Caitlyn#598 → #1,049
  3. ↓ 397Katelynn#652 → #1,049
  4. ↓ 382Kaitlynn#989 → #1,371
  5. ↓ 340Neriah#946 → #1,286

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

See the top 100 for 2016 →