Vashon
Vashon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,754 among boys’ names; 836 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vashon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vashon?
#13,754 among boys’ names, 2025
Vashon fell from #10,555 in 2015 to #13,754 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.9 per million.
125 babies in 1973, the peak
Vashon peaked in 1973, when 125 babies were given it (96 boys, #809 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,754 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 5 | #14,038 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,957 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,144 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,658 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,555 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,941 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,600 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,514 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,541 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15 | #6,013 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,781 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,270 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,052 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,507 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,262 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,469 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,243 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,058 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,831 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,907 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,172 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,398 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,149 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,382 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 16 | #4,037 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,079 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,204 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,096 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,744 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #7,135 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,578 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #6,055 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,828 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,487 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,533 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,868 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,675 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,936 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,915 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,024 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,468 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,777 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,241 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 28 | #1,783 | 17.9 |
| 1974 | 77 | #935 | 49.0 |
| 1973 | 96 | #809 | 61.6 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,331 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vashon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 836 Americans recorded as Vashon, 8% are girls and 92% 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 Vashon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vashon, and how old are they?
An estimated 790 Americans named Vashon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 25 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 651 people named Vashon (86 women and girls, 565 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 792 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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, Vashon is the most given (79% 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 Vashon
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 Vashon and names like it
- Compare Vashon and VashaunBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sVashon peaked in 1973.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vashon since 1910.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Vashon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Vashon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with VMost given first.