Vandy — boys' name

What the Data Says About Vandy

The Social Security Administration has registered 299 babies named Vandy between 1915 and 1994, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vandy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1950, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Vandy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 193 additional births since 1955.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vandy performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 68 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Vandy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Vandy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vandy 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 299 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.