Vaani
Vaani was given to 91 girls in 2025, #2,075 among girls’ names; 652 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vaani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vaani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vaani is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit वाणी (vāṇī).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vaani?
#2,075 among girls’ names, 2025
Vaani rose from #6,960 in 2015 to #2,075 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 56.6 per million.
91 babies in 2025, the peak
Vaani peaked in 2025, when 91 girls were given it, #2,075 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 87 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,075 | 56.6 |
| 2024 | 87 | #2,198 | 53.7 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,935 | 36.1 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,443 | 45.7 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,032 | 33.5 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,960 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,714 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,842 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,476 | 26.1 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,979 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,960 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 28 | #5,016 | 15.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,539 | 8.0 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,510 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,055 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,041 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vaani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vaani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vaani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vaani, and how old are they?
An estimated 648 Americans named Vaani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Where are babies named Vaani born?
The states with the most babies named Vaani are California, New Jersey and Georgia, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | #1,476 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #714 | 4.1× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,067 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 8 | #807 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,900 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,392 | 0.7× |
Where Vaani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vaani is most over-represented in California: since 2005 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Vaani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,203 babies since 1880, Vaani is the fourth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 296 babies (31%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vaani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vaani and names like it
- Compare Vaani and VaniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVaani peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vaani since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vaani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Vaani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vaani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.