Vail is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Val, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vail: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,102 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,102 in 2018; #6,307 in 2025. About 76% of babies named Vail in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,307 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #3,102.
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Vail: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,102 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 53 (2018).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Vail, making it the 6,307th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,293 places from #5,014 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 27 girls named Vail in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,102, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 53. For comparison, it was #3,386 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Vail, making it the 11,895th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #3,151, reached in 1946. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10, in 2020. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vail in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 547 US babies have been given the name, 79% of them girls and 21% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 252 babies named Vail.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 313 US girls were named Vail; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Val (7,406 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vail in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,307 | 6 | #11,895 |
| 2024 | 27 | #5,014 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,953 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,970 | 6 | #12,218 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,236 | 7 | #10,719 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,159 | 10 | #8,007 |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,102 | 6 | #12,048 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,214 | 6 | #12,140 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 2015 | 48 | #3,386 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,385 | — | — |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,073 | 5 | #13,934 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,880 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,146 | — | — |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,526 | — | — |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #14,278 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,970 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,345 | — | — |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,227 | — | — |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,391 |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,030 | — | — |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,192 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,293 | — | — |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,435 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,337 | — | — |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,151 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,276 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,939 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,763 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,550 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,352 |
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).