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Vadim

#11,889 in 2025Boys' name

To argue; to tame, through Вадим

Vadim has been given to 539 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #11,889 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Vadim, 2025

1 in 553,000

Vadim over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vadim: meaning, origin, and history

To argue; to tame, through Вадим

Slavic languages

What Vadim means

Vadim belongs to the name family reached through Vadim → Вадим. Its meaning is “to argue; to tame”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vadim is used in English. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Vadim comes through Russian Вадим.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bademus and Вадим.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 539 boys were recorded with the name Vadim between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,337 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,001 in 2020 to #11,889 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,646 in 2015 to #11,889 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 Vadim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,889
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vadim sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vadim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vadims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vadim was born before 2007 — so the typical Vadim is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
539
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Vadim 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
−2,956
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,888
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,243
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.2%
Peak was 2002 (27)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,337
2002

Spellings of Vadim

Vadim is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 91.5% against Vadim's 0.08%.

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 Vadim is used

Across 1910–2025, Vadim was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 298,311 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Vadim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vadim around the world

Where Vadim 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
    2006–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2008–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • France
    1967–2025
    #492
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1956–2008
    #467
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Vadim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,889
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,888
Best rank ever
#3,337
2002
Peak year
2002
27 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
539
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Vadim

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

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Sibling names for Vadim

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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