Vuk is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wolfgang, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vuk: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #4,267 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #4,267 in 2020; #7,163 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vuk in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,163 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #4,267.
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Vuk: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #4,267 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 24 (2022).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Vuk, making it the 7,163rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 716 places from #6,447 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 boys named Vuk in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,267, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 24, in 2022. For comparison, it was #6,656 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vuk in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 7 babies. In all, 251 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 115 babies named Vuk.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 146 US boys were named Vuk; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wolfgang (3,220 babies since 1880) and Wolf (1,658 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 Vuk 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 | — | — | 12 | #7,163 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,447 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,696 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,433 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,325 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,267 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,686 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,621 |
| 2017 | — | — | 14 | #6,311 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,701 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,656 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,978 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,995 |
| 2012 | — | — | 13 | #6,611 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #8,038 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,749 |
| 2009 | — | — | 7 | #10,917 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,502 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,858 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,603 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #10,103 |
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).