Vasu

Boys' name

Excellent, good, wealthy, bright

Vasu has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2004, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Vasu, 2006

1 in 659,000

Vasu over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vasu: meaning, origin, and history

Excellent, good, wealthy, bright

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vasu means

Vasu means “excellent, good, wealthy, bright”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Vasu is used in Hinduism, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Vasu between 1996 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2004; its best national rank was #7,096 in 1996.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Vasu?

Vasu had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006: 1 in 659,000; 6 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only: 1 in 343,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 457,035 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Vasu 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 2006 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 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vasu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vasus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vasu was born before 2003 — so the typical Vasu is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 61.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 57; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 61.4% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Vasu 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: —; 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 2004 (10)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,096; 1996

Spellings of Vasu

Vasu is not the most common spelling — Van is, with 16.1% against Vasu's 0.03%.

Van16.1%29,432
Cash15.2%27,705
Jase13.1%23,905
Nash12.3%22,439
Asa11.6%21,166
Kash9.5%17,367
Case5.4%9,926
Val3.1%5,657

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.

Vasu 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: #7,096; 1996
Peak year: 2004; 10 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2006
All-time count: 57
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Vasu

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

Vash Vasil Vasili Vasco Vasile Vasilije Eyasu Vasily Vashaun Vaso Vassar Vasiliy Vasean Vastine Vashon Vasishta Vashawn Vasudev Vasilis Vasanth Vashone Vashion Vasken Vasisht

Sibling names for Vasu

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Iyanna Charlize Jasmyn Kya Elyssa Shreya Anastacia Jaci

For a brother

Kadin Alexandro Lazaro Reagan Braulio Alexandre Johnpaul Mikel

Explore around Vasu

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