Vegas — #5510 US boys' name
312 babies named Vegas in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 61% of names given to boys today.
36% of everyone ever named Vegas was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Vegas in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Vegas
The Social Security Administration has registered 312 babies named Vegas between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vegas currently holds the #5510 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Vegas is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 145 additional births since 2001.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Vegas performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Vegas shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Vegas in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Vegas 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 312 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.
Vegas at a glance
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Current rank
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Vegas popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1979
- Peak year (2022)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
Currently ranks #5510 among boys.
312 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 18 births in a single year.
Vegas popularity over time — girls
145 total births recorded since 2001 (Vegas as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Vegas accounts for 32% of total recorded use across both genders.
Vegas by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 113 births that decade — 36% of Vegas's all-time total
Vegas decade highlights
- Peak decade 113 births
- Runner-up 94 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Vegas's strongest decade
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Vegas by state
Where Vegas concentrates geographically — total births since 1979
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.6% |
5 of 312 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California 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, 1979–2024 (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.