Vesper
Vesper is given to both girls and boys: 72 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,482 among girls’ names and #9,640 among boys’, #4,139 among all names counting both); 1,006 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vesper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vesper?
#2,482 among girls’ names, 2025
Vesper rose from #3,529 in 2015 to #2,482 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 25.2 to 44.8 per million.
89 babies in 2023, the peak
Vesper peaked in 2023, when 89 babies were given it (82 girls, #2,267 among girls’ names). The 80 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 90% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,482 | 44.8 |
| 2024 | 62 | #2,772 | 38.3 |
| 2023 | 82 | #2,267 | 51.1 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,685 | 39.6 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,210 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,603 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,913 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,491 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,545 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,058 | 31.0 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #3,529 | 25.2 |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,134 | 29.7 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,235 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,828 | 17.0 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,236 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,765 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,922 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,311 | 3.7 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,284 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,019 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,694 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,980 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,327 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,439 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,265 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,062 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,898 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,917 | 5.1 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,615 | 12.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,769 | 12.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,415 | 15.0 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,025 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vesper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,006 Americans recorded as Vesper, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vesper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vesper, and how old are they?
An estimated 869 Americans named Vesper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 600 people named Vesper (545 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 478 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
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 Vesper born?
The states with the most babies named Vesper are California, New York and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,267 | 1.1× |
| New York | 7 | #1,822 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,759 | 0.5× |
Where Vesper is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vesper is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Vesper with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vesper
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 Vesper and names like it
- Compare Vesper and EilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVesper peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vesper since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Vesper.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vesper alive today were born 2013-2025.
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