Vestal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Vestal

The Social Security Administration has registered 367 babies named Vestal between 1907 and 1957, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vestal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1957. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Vestal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 125 additional births since 1907.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Vestal performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 129 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Vestal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Vestal in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Vestal 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 367 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.