Baby Names That Start With V
Girls' and boys' names beginning with V, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with V, 2025
- 2.4%
- vs 1.6% in 2000
- Girls' V names in use
- 250
- 1,180 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1918
- at 4.0% of names
- Boys with V, 2025
- 0.73%
- vs 0.54% in 2000
- Boys' V names in use
- 191
- 644 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1918
- at 1.3% of names
How V has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with V, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 572#526 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 4,027#54 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 3,267#107 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 1,664#211 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 2,221#127 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 813#377 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 3,362#72 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 730#427 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 7,546#13 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,482#205 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 133#1,387 | Up 483 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 247#1,015 | Up 104 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,835#162 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 129#1,417 | Up 370 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 5,354#35 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 236#972 | Down 104 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 928#331 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 200#1,080 | Down 106 rank positions in five years | 1969 | |||
| 1,786#172 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 498#589 | Up 177 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 183#1,153 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1949 | |||
| 48#3,293 | Up 1,242 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 117#1,507 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 370#739 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 302#886 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 137#1,364 | Up 161 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 187#1,218 | Up 52 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 118#1,731 | Down 292 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 710#444 | Up 176 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 418#660 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 403#674 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 96#2,001 | Down 432 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 366#744 | Up 161 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 451#641 | Up 251 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 712#434 | Up 373 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 108#1,854 | Down 521 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 89#1,807 | Up 736 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 298#894 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 87#1,836 | Down 365 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 261#910 | Down 194 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 68#2,142 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 1958 | |||
| 208#1,128 | Up 132 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 39#3,120 | Up 888 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 162#1,238 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 105#1,879 | Up 6,490 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 196#1,184 | Up 386 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 114#1,776 | Down 145 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 60#2,858 | Up 70 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 250#942 | Up 198 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 27#4,035 | Up 1,174 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 148#1,457 | Down 270 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 108#1,584 | Down 326 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 59#2,892 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 47#3,339 | Down 660 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 70#2,539 | Up 905 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 43#2,936 | Up 262 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 24#4,378 | Down 732 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 58#2,930 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 188#1,131 | Up 339 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 144#1,338 | Up 173 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 29#3,842 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 145#1,482 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 55#3,026 | Down 140 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 139#1,357 | Up 964 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 61#2,817 | Up 1,623 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 58#2,385 | Down 1,073 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 159#1,254 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 120#1,484 | Up 1,018 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 105#1,619 | Up 492 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 63#2,256 | Up 1,009 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 134#1,578 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 101#1,925 | Down 295 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 31#3,650 | Up 612 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 75#2,408 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 97#1,697 | Up 1,221 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 102#1,909 | Up 719 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 72#2,482 | Up 1,121 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 207#1,131 | Up 4,932 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 58#2,929 | Down 590 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 49#3,246 | Up 2,409 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 106#1,608 | Up 1,193 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 28#3,940 | Down 139 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 65#2,688 | Up 324 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 91#2,075 | Up 885 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 47#2,757 | Up 965 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 64#2,226 | Up 971 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 23#4,525 | Up 1,737 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 47#2,758 | Up 1,769 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 71#2,513 | Up 1,645 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 27#4,036 | Down 550 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 45#3,451 | Up 6,049 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 30#3,745 | Down 182 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 39#3,119 | Up 443 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 123#1,683 | Up 10,379 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 28#3,941 | Down 294 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 68#2,141 | Up 3,816 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 36#3,307 | Up 1,714 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 41#3,033 | Up 3,557 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 24#4,379 | Up 2,623 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 25#4,240 | new | 2023 |
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V names climbing fastest
Biggest V names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
V names climbing fastest
Biggest V names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
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Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.