Vega — #3893 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Vega

The Social Security Administration has registered 715 babies named Vega between 1918 and 2024, spanning 107 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vega currently holds the #3893 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 52 babies received it in a single year. Vega is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 178 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vega performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 333 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Vega shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Vega in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vega 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 715 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.