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Vaishali

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Vaishali has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1985, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Vaishali, 2015

1 in 370,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vaishali: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Vaishali means

Vaishali is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vaishali is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 204 girls were recorded with the name Vaishali between 1971 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1985; its best national rank was #5,333 in 1985.

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 Vaishali?

Vaishali had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 370,000
10 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
256,575 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vaishali 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 2015 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 256,575 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vaishali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vaishalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vaishali was born before 1992 — so the typical Vaishali is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
204
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Vaishali 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (14)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,333
1985

Spellings of Vaishali

Vaishali is not the most common spelling — Vaishnavi is, with 56.4% against Vaishali's 12.0%.

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.

Vaishali around the world

Where Vaishali 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
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1988–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vaishali by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,333
1985
Peak year
1985
14 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
204
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vaishali

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

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Sibling names for Vaishali

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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