Vashaun
Vashaun was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,753 among boys’ names; 220 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vashaun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vashaun?
#13,753 among boys’ names, 2025
Vashaun entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,753 in 2025.
17 babies in 1997, the peak
Vashaun peaked in 1997, when 17 boys were given it, #4,042 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,753 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,908 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,940 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,725 | 4.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,385 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,666 | 5.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,968 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #10,086 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,492 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,783 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #9,338 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,290 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,279 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,631 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,233 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,042 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #7,095 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,810 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,416 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,893 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,827 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,191 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,446 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,247 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,601 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,815 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,296 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vashaun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 220 Americans recorded as Vashaun, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vashaun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vashaun, and how old are they?
An estimated 212 Americans named Vashaun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 227 people named Vashaun (30 women and girls, 197 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 206 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,056 babies since 1880, Vashaun is the second most given (21% of them).
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 Vashaun
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 Vashaun and names like it
- Compare Vashaun and VashonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sVashaun peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Vashaun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vashaun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.