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Vlad

#5,835 in 2025Boys' name

Power, through Vladimir

Vlad has been given to 543 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #5,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Vlad, 2025

1 in 207,000

Vlad over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vlad: meaning, origin, and history

Power, through Vladimir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vlad means

Vlad belongs to the name family reached through Vlad → Vladimir. Its meaning is “power”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Common Romanian male given name, sometimes used as a short form of Vladimir, but more commonly a hypocorism of Vladislav. It is also found as Czech and Slovak surname.

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Vlad is used in English and Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vladimir and Vladislav.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vlad is pronounced /vlæd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 543 boys were recorded with the name Vlad between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,625 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,679 in 2020 to #5,835 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,045 in 2015 to #5,835 in 2025.

How common is Vlad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vlad 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vlad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vlads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vlad was born before 2011 — so the typical Vlad is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
543
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (212).

Is Vlad 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
+962
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−156
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−790
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2004 (26)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,625
2004

Spellings of Vlad

Vlad is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 43.2% against Vlad's 0.06%.

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 Vlad is used

Across 1910–2025, Vlad was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 878,187 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 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. Vlad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vlad around the world

Where Vlad 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
    2004–2025
    #735
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2023
    #614
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1992–2025
    #1,316
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #2,413
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1998–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Vlad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 156
Best rank ever
#3,625
2004
Peak year
2004
26 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
543
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Vlad

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

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Sibling names for Vlad

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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