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Vaayu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,710 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,710 in 2024; #3,034 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vaayu in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,034 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,710.
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Vaayu: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,710 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 49 (2024).
In 2025, 41 US boys were named Vaayu, making it the 3,034th most common boys’ name of the year, down 324 places from #2,710 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 49 boys named Vaayu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,710, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 49. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vaayu in 7 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2019 with 7 babies. In all, 186 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 179 babies named Vaayu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 186 US boys were named Vaayu; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 41,660 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).