Vada

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Vada is ranked 960th among girls in 2024 (272 births). Its best rank was 334th, in 1901.

Rank in 2024: #960down 131 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2720.02% of girls
Peak year: 2020335 births
Best rank: #334in 1901
Since 1880: 12,623people given the name

Babies named Vada, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

12,623 girls have been named Vada in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 335 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Vada
1880s	222
1890s	574
1900s	775
1910s	1,682
1920s	1,877
1930s	1,263
1940s	743
1950s	464
1960s	272
1970s	121
1980s	62
1990s	219
2000s	588
2010s	2,173
2020s	1,588

In 2020, its biggest year

Vada was the 813th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.

Names that rose and fell with Vada

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.