In 2025, 187 US girls were named Vida, making it the 1,218th most common girls’ name of the year, down 194 places from #1,024 in 2024. That is 60 fewer than the 247 girls named Vida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #320, reached in 1903. The most girls given the name in a single year was 277, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,292 in 2015 and #1,063 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vida in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 12,473 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,812 babies named Vida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,047 US girls were named Vida; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 277. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,595 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vida ranked highest in California in 2025, at #614 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Veda (14,076 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian, Lithuanian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.