Vaya
#10,852 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vaya has been given to 144 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #10,852 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Vaya, 2025
1 in 368,000
Vaya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Vaya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,852
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vaya 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Vayas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vaya was born before 2019 — so the typical Vaya is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 144
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (72).
Is Vaya 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
- +199
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,478
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,540
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.29×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2023 (18)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.2% average annual change
Spellings of Vaya
Vaya is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 11.0% against Vaya's <0.01%.
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.
Vaya around the world
Where Vaya 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 & Wales2013–2025#5,927in 2025
- Canada2024–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia1970–1970#475in 1970
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Vaya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Vaya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vaya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.