Vadis
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vadis has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Vadis, 1938
1 in 443,000
Vadis over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Vadis over time
In 1938, Vadis went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Vadis?
Vadis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1938
- 1 in 443,000
- 5 of 2,212,569 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 221,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1938
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 306,728 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vadis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 306,728 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vadis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Vadiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vadis was born before 1922 — so the typical Vadis is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 40.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (35).
Is Vadis 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (9)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Vadis
Vadis is not the most common spelling — Sadie is, with 38.6% against Vadis's 0.02%.
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.
Vadis around the world
Where Vadis 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.
- South Australia1960–1960#468in 1960
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Vadis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Vadis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vadis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.