Vlad is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Vladimir, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vlad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,629 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,629 in 2004; #5,837 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vlad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,837 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #3,629.
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Vlad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,629 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 26 (2016).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Vlad, making it the 5,837th most common boys’ name of the year, up 965 places from #6,802 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 13 boys named Vlad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,629, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 26, in 2016. For comparison, it was #5,047 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vlad in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 7 babies. In all, 543 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 212 babies named Vlad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 175 US boys were named Vlad; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vladimir (6,190 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).
No nicknames listed for Vlad 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,837 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,802 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,269 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,851 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,486 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,683 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,388 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,727 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,284 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,088 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #5,047 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,126 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,454 |
| 2012 | — | — | 24 | #4,239 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,970 |
| 2010 | — | — | 24 | #4,230 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,910 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,702 |
| 2007 | — | — | 20 | #4,799 |
| 2006 | — | — | 22 | #4,364 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,190 |
| 2004 | — | — | 26 | #3,629 |
| 2003 | — | — | 19 | #4,413 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,317 |
| 2001 | — | — | 16 | #4,880 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,288 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,849 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,932 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,767 |
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).