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Vann

#4,378 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Vann has been given to 2,081 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,378 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Vann, 2025

1 in 138,000

Vann over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vann: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vann means

Vann is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vann is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,057 boys were recorded with the name Vann between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,049 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,646 in 2020 to #4,378 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,507 in 2015 to #4,378 in 2025.

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Vann between 1951 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1952; its best national rank was #4,463 in 1952.

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 Vann?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,378
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vann 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vann was born before 1983 — so the typical Vann is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,611
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (376).

Is Vann 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
+844
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−732
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−871
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.4%
Peak was 2009 (58)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,049
1880

Spellings of Vann

Vann is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 17.4% against Vann's 0.12%.

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 Vann is used

Across 1910–2025, Vann was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 196,317 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Vann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vann around the world

Where Vann 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.

  • Canada
    2004–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2004–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Vann

People whose public names include Vann, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vann by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,378
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 732
Best rank ever
#1,049
1880
Peak year
2009
58 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,057
Count in 2025
24

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,463
1952
Peak year
1952
8 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vann

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

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Names with a curve like Vann

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vann, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Vann

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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