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Vuk

#7,159 in 2025Boys' name

Wolf

Vuk has been given to 251 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #7,159 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Vuk, 2025

1 in 276,000

Vuk over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vuk: meaning, origin, and history

Wolf

Slavic languages

What Vuk means

Vuk means “wolf”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vuk is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Vuk is pronounced /ʋûːk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 251 boys were recorded with the name Vuk between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,263 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,263 in 2020 to #7,159 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,651 in 2015 to #7,159 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 Vuk?

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 boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,159
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

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

When Vuks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vuk was born before 2017 — so the typical Vuk is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
251
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Vuk 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
−717
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,896
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−508
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2020 (24)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,263
2020

Where Vuk is used

Across 1910–2025, Vuk was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 258,620 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Vuk has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vuk around the world

Where Vuk 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
    2011–2011
    #3,830
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #741
    in 2020
  • France
    2002–2024
    #5,014
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Vuk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,159
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,896
Best rank ever
#4,263
2020
Peak year
2020
24 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
251
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Vuk

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

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Sibling names for Vuk

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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