Vail — #4904 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Vail

The Social Security Administration has registered 415 babies named Vail between 1952 and 2024, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vail currently holds the #4904 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 53 babies received it in a single year. Vail is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 107 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vail performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 235 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Vail shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Colorado. In total, SSA state-level files list Vail in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vail in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 415 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.