Vaughn — #1186 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Vaughn

The Social Security Administration has registered 21,180 babies named Vaughn between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vaughn currently holds the #1186 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1949, when 374 babies received it in a single year. Vaughn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,099 additional births since 1901.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vaughn performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 2,548 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Vaughn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,696 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Vaughn in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vaughn 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 21,180 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.