Vashti — #10261 US girls' name
2,343 babies named Vashti in U.S. Social Security records since 1882, with the highest year being 1922. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 42% of names given to girls today.
14% of everyone ever named Vashti was born in this single decade.
40 babies were named Vashti in 1922 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Vashti
The Social Security Administration has registered 2,343 babies named Vashti between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vashti currently holds the #10261 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 40 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Vashti performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 327 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Vashti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Vashti in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Vashti 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 2,343 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.
Vashti at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Vashti popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1882
- Peak year (1922)
- 40
- Annual births at peak — across 143 years of records
Currently ranks #10261 among girls.
2,343 total births across 143 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1922 with 40 births in a single year.
Vashti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 327 births that decade — 14% of Vashti's all-time total
Vashti decade highlights
- Peak decade 327 births
- Runner-up 245 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Vashti's strongest decade
327 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 14% of all-time use.
Vashti by state
Where Vashti concentrates geographically — total births since 1882
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 38 | 1.6% |
| #2 | New York | | 22 | 0.9% |
| #3 | California | | 17 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Texas | | 16 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 12 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Virginia | | 10 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Florida | | 5 | 0.2% |
| #8 | South Carolina | | 5 | 0.2% |
38 of 2,343 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 1.6% of nationwide
- New York 0.9% of nationwide
- California 0.7% of nationwide
- Texas 0.7% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1882–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.