Vander
#1,357 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vander has been given to 1,828 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #1,357 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 139 recorded.
Babies named Vander, 2025
1 in 23,900
Vander 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Vander?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 23,900
- 139 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 12,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,357
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 16,533 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vander sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 16,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Vanders were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vander was born before 2012 — so the typical Vander is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 29.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,482
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (532).
Is Vander 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
- +448
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +964
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,359
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.09×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (139)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.5% average annual change
Spellings of Vander
Vander is not the most common spelling — Tanner is, with 35.5% against Vander's 0.67%.
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 Vander is used
Across 2016–2025, Vander was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 39,602 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
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.
Vander around the world
Where Vander 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.
- Canada2009–2024#1,698in 2024
- South Australia2011–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Vander by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Vander
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vander
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.