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Vanetta

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Vanetta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
196239 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1910
1,224people given the name
Babies named Vanetta, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,224 girls have been named Vanetta in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 39 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1970s alone account for 21%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Vanetta
1910s37
1920s97
1930s91
1940s100
1950s224
1960s247
1970s260
1980s132
1990s36

In 1962, its biggest year

Vanetta was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.

Names that rose and fell with Vanetta

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.