Vashti
Recorded 1882–2025 · United States
Vashti was most popular in 1922, when 40 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,252 that year. In 2025 it ranked #14,309, with 12 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,355 people named Vashti.
Vashti over time
How old is the name Vashti?
Vashti first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1882, which makes it about 143 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 138 of the 144 years since.
How many people are named Vashti?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,355 American births named Vashti between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,439 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Vashti in 2025?
12 American babies were named Vashti in 2025, ranking #14,309 that year.
Is Vashti getting more or less popular?
Vashti is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 12 births a year across 2021–2025 against 19 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Vashti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Vashti is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,355 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Vashti?
Roughly 1,439 Americans named Vashti are alive today — 61% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 34 years old, and half are between 22 and 49.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org