Vy
Vy was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,711 among girls’ names; 1,326 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Vy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vy mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Vy is “a female given name from Chinese” Its etymology gives the sense “Osmunda regalis” (薇).
Sino-Vietnamese word from 薇 (“Osmunda regalis”).
[vi˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vy?
#5,711 among girls’ names, 2025
Vy fell from #5,117 in 2015 to #5,711 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 13.7 per million.
52 babies in 2008, the peak
Vy peaked in 2008, when 52 girls were given it, #3,262 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,711 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,595 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,857 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,621 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,392 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,613 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,969 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,300 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,650 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,838 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,117 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,346 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,631 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,777 | 23.8 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,673 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,389 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,191 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,262 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,844 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,948 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,937 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,063 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,406 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,272 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,041 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,969 | 26.4 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,501 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,115 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,807 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,445 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 20 | #5,011 | 11.4 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,698 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,765 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 26 | #4,078 | 14.1 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,489 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,223 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,839 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,052 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,277 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,885 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,513 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,871 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,428 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,773 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,337 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,988 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,326 Americans recorded as Vy, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vy, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,326 Americans ever recorded as Vy. The median Vy alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 5,460 people named Vy (4,799 women and girls, 661 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 314 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Vy born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,746 | 1.9× |
Where Vy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vy is most over-represented in California: since 1979 it was given 1.9 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 Vy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,920 babies since 1880, Vy is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 60 babies (37%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vy
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 Vy and names like it
- Compare Vy and ViBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVy peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vy since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Vy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Vy.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vy alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.