In 2025, 148 US girls were named Vayda, making it the 1,457th most common girls’ name of the year, down 90 places from #1,367 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 167 girls named Vayda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,070, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 235. For comparison, it was #1,336 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vayda in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 8 babies. In all, 2,889 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,461 babies named Vayda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,932 US girls were named Vayda; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 235. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,860 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vayda ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #559 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Vada (13,089 babies since 1880), Vaeda (1,314 babies since 1880) and Vaida (924 babies since 1880).