Vaishnav

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Vaishnav has been given to 84 babies in the U.S. since 2009. 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 2017, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Vaishnav, 2023

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Vaishnav?

Vaishnav had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vaishnav 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vaishnav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vaishnavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vaishnav was born before 2014 — so the typical Vaishnav is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
84
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2010s — 70.2% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Vaishnav 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 2017 (11)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,500
2017

Spellings of Vaishnav

Vaishnav is not the most common spelling — Vaibhav is, with 87.6% against Vaishnav's 12.4%.

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 Vaishnav is used

Across 1910–2025, Vaishnav was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Vaishnav has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vaishnav around the world

Where Vaishnav 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
    2015–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vaishnav by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,500
2017
Peak year
2017
11 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vaishnav

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

Sibling names for Vaishnav

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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