Meaning not yet researched.
Vayu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 68 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,127 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,127 in 2023; #2,141 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vayu in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,141 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,127.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Vayu: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 68 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,127 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 69 (2023).
In 2025, 68 US boys were named Vayu, making it the 2,141st most common boys’ name of the year, up 529 places from #2,670 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 50 boys named Vayu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,127, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 69. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vayu in 8 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2018 with 12 babies. In all, 272 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 252 babies named Vayu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 272 US boys were named Vayu; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,119 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vayu ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #680 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 10 | #680 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,571 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,747 | — |
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).