Girls' name · since 1972
Vandana
97 babies named Vandana in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #27,504 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 97
- born since 1972
- 1970s
- peak decade
Vandana is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 97 have been recorded since 1972.
Vandana has 97 recorded births among girls since 1972, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1972 to 2015.
- #27,504 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 97 born since 1972
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Vandana ranks #27,504 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 97 born since 1972, peaking in the 1970s.
- #27,504 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 97
- born since 1972
- 1970s
- peak decade
Vandana's 97 recorded births place it above 61.96% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Vandana's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Vandana's full recorded timeline at 1986, 54% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 46% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1972, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2000 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Vandana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1972–2015
- Peak year (2000)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 44 years of records
Vandana by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (34 births, 35% of the file).
1970s was Vandana's strongest decade.
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 35% of all-time use.
Vandana births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
34 births
- 1980s
1980s
24 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
24 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 34 births (35% of all-time use).
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- Vandana's decade-level peak was the 1970s (34 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Vandana: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2000)
Similar record span (~43 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1972–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Vandana draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.