Vlasta

Where Vlasta comes from

Vlasta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,093 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1909
    Vlasta Děkanová born
    gymnast
  3. 1909
    Peak, #831
    24 babies named Vlasta — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1926
    Vlasta Chramostová born
    Czech actress
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,750.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vlasta Chramostová · Czech actress, 1926–2019
  • Vlasta Děkanová · gymnast, 1909–1974
  • Vlasta Depetrisová · Czechoslovak table tennis player, 1920–2003
  • Vlasta Foltová · gymnast, 1913–2001
  • Vlasta Fabianová · Czech actress, 1912–1991

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.