Vaughn
Vaughn is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 183 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,901 among girls’ names and #1,153 among boys’, #2,185 among all names counting both); 22,484 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,700 Americans named Vaughn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 18 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vaughn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vaughn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vaughn is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “small” (bychan).
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
A variant of Vaughan, from Welsh bychan (“small”).
/vɔːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vaughn?
#1,153 among boys’ names, 2025
Vaughn fell from #886 in 2015 to #1,153 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.11 per 1,000.
385 babies in 1949, the peak
Vaughn peaked in 1949, when 385 babies were given it (374 boys, #348 among boys’ names). The 204 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 183 | #1,153 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,188 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,213 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 176 | #1,166 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 183 | #1,118 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 180 | #1,104 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,070 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 188 | #1,068 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 216 | #963 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 261 | #865 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (136)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 251 | #886 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 226 | #935 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 247 | #865 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 245 | #862 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 226 | #901 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 215 | #939 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 270 | #820 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 254 | #849 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 306 | #739 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 290 | #737 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 254 | #777 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 230 | #787 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 219 | #798 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 172 | #937 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 161 | #956 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 169 | #916 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 162 | #918 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 167 | #869 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 149 | #915 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 140 | #932 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 143 | #927 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 214 | #716 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 174 | #801 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 188 | #760 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 181 | #757 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 184 | #749 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 168 | #763 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 140 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 181 | #679 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 142 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 130 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 136 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 124 | #785 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 126 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 140 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 166 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 131 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 137 | #720 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 136 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 127 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 148 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 141 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 156 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 192 | #577 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 209 | #561 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 229 | #534 | 0.12 |
| 1969 | 236 | #504 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 246 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 249 | #477 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 267 | #467 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 289 | #457 | 0.16 |
| 1964 | 279 | #474 | 0.14 |
| 1963 | 268 | #490 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 254 | #500 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 214 | #543 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 246 | #508 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 212 | #538 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 213 | #528 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 198 | #550 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 218 | #513 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 217 | #502 | 0.11 |
| 1954 | 237 | #470 | 0.12 |
| 1953 | 239 | #461 | 0.12 |
| 1952 | 252 | #443 | 0.13 |
| 1951 | 297 | #393 | 0.16 |
| 1950 | 349 | #360 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 374 | #348 | 0.21 |
| 1948 | 356 | #357 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 354 | #367 | 0.19 |
| 1946 | 295 | #381 | 0.18 |
| 1945 | 184 | #441 | 0.14 |
| 1944 | 179 | #455 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 203 | #442 | 0.14 |
| 1942 | 166 | #476 | 0.12 |
| 1941 | 131 | #519 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 140 | #494 | 0.12 |
| 1939 | 120 | #523 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 134 | #505 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 107 | #562 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 118 | #526 | 0.11 |
| 1935 | 141 | #478 | 0.14 |
| 1934 | 131 | #507 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 103 | #568 | 0.10 |
| 1932 | 128 | #510 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 132 | #500 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 149 | #488 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 123 | #526 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 139 | #514 | 0.13 |
| 1927 | 121 | #561 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 115 | #579 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 140 | #522 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 116 | #593 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 130 | #538 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 123 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 133 | #542 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 122 | #564 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 99 | #611 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 141 | #503 | 0.14 |
| 1917 | 119 | #537 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 122 | #516 | 0.14 |
| 1915 | 119 | #511 | 0.14 |
| 1914 | 85 | #535 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 67 | #530 | 0.13 |
| 1912 | 54 | #551 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 28 | #583 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 17 | #752 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 16 | #711 | 0.10 |
| 1908 | 12 | #820 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 14 | #733 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 20 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 16 | #612 | 0.12 |
| 1904 | 17 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 14 | #616 | 0.12 |
| 1902 | 13 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1901 | 8 | #853 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 12 | #780 | 0.08 |
| 1899 | 7 | #924 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,112 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 9 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 7 | #971 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 12 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 8 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,059 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 6 | #952 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1881 | 5 | #985 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vaughn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,484 Americans recorded as Vaughn, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vaughn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vaughn, and how old are they?
15,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 22,484 Americans ever recorded as Vaughn. The median Vaughn alive today is 37 years old; half are between 18 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 14,855 people named Vaughn (713 women and girls, 14,142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 602 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,410 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,740 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,890 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Vaughn born?
The states with the most babies named Vaughn are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,726 | #955 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,695 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 1,349 | #2,023 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 1,249 | #1,008 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 991 | #713 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 941 | #1,746 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 738 | #1,266 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 574 | #1,347 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 521 | #941 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 452 | #801 | 1.2× |
Where Vaughn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vaughn is most over-represented in Maine: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Vaughn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 24,121 babies since 1880, Vaughn is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 204 of their 209 babies (98%), again the most given.
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 Vaughn
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 Vaughn and names like it
- Compare Vaughn and VaughanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sVaughn peaked in 1949.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vaughn since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Vaughn: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Vaughn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vaughn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.