In 2025, 22 US girls were named Vy, making it the 5,712th most common girls’ name of the year, down 114 places from #5,598 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 23 girls named Vy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,973, reached in 2000. The most girls given the name in a single year was 52, in 2008. For comparison, it was #5,119 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vy in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 7 babies. In all, 1,326 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 2.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 416 babies named Vy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 231 US girls were named Vy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.