Meaning not yet researched.
Vanity: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,268 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,268 in 1988; #8,326 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vanity in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,326 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #1,268.
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Vanity: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,268 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 116 (1988).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Vanity, making it the 8,326th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,703 places from #6,623 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 18 girls named Vanity in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,268, reached in 1988. That year also had the most girls given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #6,224 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vanity in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 1,858 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 592 babies named Vanity.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 230 US girls were named Vanity; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Vanitie are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vanitie (5).
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 Vanity 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 | 13 | #8,326 | — | — |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,623 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,226 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,297 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,227 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,475 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #7,002 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,224 | — | — |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,915 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,342 | — | — |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,224 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,347 | — | — |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,704 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,349 | — | — |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,871 | — | — |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,803 | — | — |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,945 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,936 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,975 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,204 | — | — |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,297 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,051 | — | — |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,599 | — | — |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,266 | — | — |
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).