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Vesta

Girls' name

To dwell + Hestia

Vesta has been given to 8,208 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1918, with 257 recorded.

Babies named Vesta, 2024

1 in 669,000

Vesta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vesta: meaning, origin, and history

To dwell + Hestia

Latin

What Vesta means

Vesta means “to dwell + Hestia”, associated with ἑστία and Ἑστία.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Vesta, from Latin Vesta, related to Ancient Greek ἑστία (hestía, “to dwell”) and Ἑστία (Hestía, “Hestia”), all from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-; see also Old High German and Old English wesan (“to be”), Gothic wisan, Sanskrit वसति (vasati, “abide dwell”). Vesta itself came to mean chaste, pure, or virgin, based from this goddess.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Vesta (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Vesta is used in English and Estonian. Its origins include Latin.

Vesta comes through Middle English Vesta, Latin Vesta and Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes-.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vesta is pronounced /ˈvɛstə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,181 girls were recorded with the name Vesta between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 257 in 1918; its best national rank was #279 in 1894.

In the United States, 27 boys were recorded with the name Vesta between 1914 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,735 in 1914.

How common is Vesta?

Vesta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vesta 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vesta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vestas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vesta was born before 1920 — so the typical Vesta is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,046
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1910s — 22.0% of all recorded uses (1,798).

Is Vesta 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (257)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#279
1894

Spellings of Vesta

Vesta is not the most common spelling — Vera is, with 24.0% against Vesta's 1.3%.

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 Vesta is used

Across 1910–2025, Vesta was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 44,438 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 7,692
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 8,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 10,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 11,111
  5. 5Missouri1 in 14,286
  6. 6Iowa1 in 16,667
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 20,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 20,000

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. Vesta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vesta around the world

Where Vesta 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 & Wales
    2007–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2009–2012
    #768
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1961–1961
    #665
    in 1961

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Vesta

People whose public names include Vesta, 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.

Vesta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#279
1894
Peak year
1918
257 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
8,181
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,735
1914
Peak year
1919
6 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vesta

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

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Names with a curve like Vesta

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

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Sibling names for Vesta

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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