Boy Names That Start With V
Boys' names beginning with V, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 0.73%
- vs 0.54% in 2000
- Names in use
- 191
- 644 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1918
- at 1.3% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #22
- by 2025 share
How V has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with V, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,267#107 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 1,664#211 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 133#1,387 | Up 483 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 129#1,417 | Up 370 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 236#972 | Down 104 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 200#1,080 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 1969 | |||
| 498#589 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 183#1,153 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1949 | |||
| 117#1,507 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 137#1,364 | Up 161 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 710#444 | Up 176 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 418#660 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 403#674 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 89#1,807 | Up 736 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 87#1,836 | Down 365 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 261#910 | Down 194 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 68#2,142 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 1958 | |||
| 39#3,120 | Up 888 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 162#1,238 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 250#942 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 27#4,035 | Up 1,174 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 108#1,584 | Down 326 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 43#2,936 | Up 262 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 24#4,378 | Down 732 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 188#1,131 | Up 339 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 144#1,338 | Up 173 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 29#3,842 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 139#1,357 | Up 964 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 58#2,385 | Down 1,073 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 159#1,254 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 120#1,484 | Up 1,018 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 105#1,619 | Up 492 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 63#2,256 | Up 1,009 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 31#3,650 | Up 612 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 97#1,697 | Up 1,221 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 106#1,608 | Up 1,193 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 28#3,940 | Down 139 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 47#2,757 | Up 965 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 64#2,226 | Up 971 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 23#4,525 | Up 1,737 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 47#2,758 | Up 1,769 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 27#4,036 | Down 550 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 30#3,745 | Down 182 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 39#3,119 | Up 443 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 28#3,941 | Down 294 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 68#2,141 | Up 3,816 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 36#3,307 | Up 1,714 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 41#3,033 | Up 3,557 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 24#4,379 | Up 2,623 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 25#4,240 | new | 2023 |
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V names climbing fastest
Biggest V names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.