Vedant
Vedant was given to 120 boys in 2025, #1,484 among boys’ names; 1,407 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Vedant and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vedant by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vedant mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vedant is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit वेदांत (vedāṃta).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vedant?
#1,484 among boys’ names, 2025
Vedant rose from #2,525 in 2015 to #1,484 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.1 to 70.3 per million.
120 babies in 2025, the peak
Vedant peaked in 2025, when 120 boys were given it, #1,484 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 105 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 120 | #1,484 | 70.3 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,630 | 60.9 |
| 2023 | 80 | #1,951 | 46.8 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,238 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,191 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 52 | #2,502 | 30.1 |
| 2019 | 45 | #2,801 | 25.1 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,705 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,945 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,254 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #2,525 | 26.1 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,294 | 30.2 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,420 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,267 | 30.6 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,170 | 32.1 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,236 | 30.8 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,139 | 32.3 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,056 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,368 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,539 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 48 | #2,425 | 24.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,849 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,799 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,896 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,289 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,287 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #7,095 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,739 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vedant a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vedant has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vedant: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vedant, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,407 Americans ever recorded as Vedant. The median Vedant alive today is 11 years old; half are between 4 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,224 people named Vedant (0 women and girls, 1,224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 925 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 561 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 833 |
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 Vedant born?
The states with the most babies named Vedant are California, Texas and Washington, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 25 | #931 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,127 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 13 | #572 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #700 | 3.3× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,081 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,135 | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,742 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,267 | 0.4× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #890 | 0.3× |
Where Vedant is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vedant is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1997 it was given 3.3 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 Vedant 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 1,563 babies since 1880, Vedant is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 120 of their 132 babies (91%), 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 Vedant
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 Vedant and names like it
- Compare Vedant and VedaantBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVedant peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vedant since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vedant: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Vedant.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vedant alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.