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
- Peak · girls
- 1902 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 932since 1902
Vesper over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,458 | 72 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #2,749 | 62 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #2,258 | 82 | #9,763 | 7 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,438 | 45 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,530 | 70 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 | — | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | — | |
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| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | — | |
| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | #4,347 | 5 |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | #3,097 | 10 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #3,219 | 9 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
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| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
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| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
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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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,654 · 1 in 11,190
- California#2,093 · 1 in 17,969
- Texas#3,285 · 1 in 32,108
Best ever in a state: #869 in Washington, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,654 | 7 | 1 in 11,190 |
| California | #2,093 | 9 | 1 in 17,969 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1902
- Peaked 1902 at #1,793 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 46.1% of all girls named Vesper (430) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | #1,793 (1902) | #1,947 |
| 1910s | 47 | #2,360 (1912) | #3,341 |
| 1920s | 34 | #3,097 (1920) | #4,163 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 37 | #4,805 (2009) | #9,319 |
| 2010s | 430 | #2,530 (2017) | #3,804 |
| 2020s | 374 | #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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 22,323 of them was named Vesper, which outranked 85.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #2,438Tamar73
- #2,438Unique73
- #2,438Zena73
- #2,458Vesper72
- #2,458Aiyla72
- #2,458Alanis72
- #2,458Averly72
- #2,485Acacia71
- #2,485Adalyne71
- #2,485Alex71
Tied with 26 names at #2,458; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 213,510 of them was named Vesper, which outranked 36.0% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #8,243Zurich9
- #8,243Zydn9
- #8,243Zyran9
- #8,910Vesper8
- #8,910Aaden8
- #8,910Aarnik8
- #8,910Aaro8
- #9,714Aadhi7
- #9,714Aadiv7
- #9,714Aadrik7
Tied with 803 names at #8,910; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.