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Vaani

#2,075 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly called, sounded, through वाणी

Vaani has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #2,075 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 91 recorded.

Babies named Vaani, 2025

1 in 36,400

Vaani over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vaani: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly called, sounded, through वाणी

Sanskrit

What Vaani means

Vaani belongs to the name family reached through Vaani → वाणी. Its meaning is “called, sounded”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vaani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vaani comes through Sanskrit वाणी.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include वाणी.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 652 girls were recorded with the name Vaani between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 91 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,075 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,960 in 2020 to #2,075 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,960 in 2015 to #2,075 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vaani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,075
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vaani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vaani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vaanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vaani was born before 2021 — so the typical Vaani is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
64.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
652
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 64.6% of all recorded uses (421).

Is Vaani rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+123
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+885
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,885
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (91)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,075
2025

Spellings of Vaani

Vaani is not the most common spelling — Imani is, with 15.9% against Vaani's 0.37%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vaani is used

Across 1910–2025, Vaani was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 223,171 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vaani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vaani around the world

Where Vaani ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2022
    #5,749
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #647
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Vaani by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,075
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 885
Best rank ever
#2,075
2025
Peak year
2025
91 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
652
Count in 2025
91

Names similar to Vaani

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Vaani

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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