Vanness — boys' name

What the Data Says About Vanness

The Social Security Administration has registered 13 babies named Vanness between 1971 and 2012, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vanness currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Vanness is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1964.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vanness performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 8 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Vanness shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Vanness in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vanness 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 13 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.