Vista — girls' name
388 babies named Vista in U.S. Social Security records since 1889, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
25% of everyone ever named Vista was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Vista in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Vista
The Social Security Administration has registered 388 babies named Vista between 1889 and 2022, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Vista currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Vista performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 98 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Vista shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Vista 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 388 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.
Vista at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Vista popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1889
- Peak year (1920)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 134 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
388 total births across 134 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 16 births in a single year.
Vista by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 98 births that decade — 25% of Vista's all-time total
Vista decade highlights
- Peak decade 98 births
- Runner-up 84 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Vista's strongest decade
98 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
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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, 1889–2022 (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.