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Vashti

#8,821 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly good

Vashti has been given to 2,355 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #8,821 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Vashti, 2025

1 in 276,000

Vashti over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vashti: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly good

Persian

What Vashti means

Vashti may mean “good”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vashti is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Vashti comes through Hebrew וַשְׁתִּי‬.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vashti is pronounced /ˈvæʃti/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,355 girls were recorded with the name Vashti between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1922; its best national rank was #793 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,065 in 2020 to #8,821 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,411 in 2015 to #8,821 in 2025.

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 Vashti?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,821
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vashti 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 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vashti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vashtis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vashti was born before 1972 — so the typical Vashti is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
13.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,390
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 13.9% of all recorded uses (327).

Is Vashti 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
+2,229
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,244
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−410
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1922 (40)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#793
1902

Spellings of Vashti

Vashti is not the most common spelling — Ashli is, with 46.9% against Vashti's 19.3%.

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 Vashti is used

Across 1910–2025, Vashti was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 491,293 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6South Carolina1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Vashti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vashti around the world

Where Vashti 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
    2005–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1956–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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 Vashti

People whose public names include Vashti, 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.

Vashti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,821
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,244
Best rank ever
#793
1902
Peak year
1922
40 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,355
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Vashti

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

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Names with a curve like Vashti

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

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Sibling names for Vashti

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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