Vaughn
Vaughn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 174 births. Its best rank was 348th, in 1949.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1740.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1949374 births
- Best rank
- #348in 1949
- Since 1881
- 22,279people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,180 boys have been named Vaughn in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1949, with 374 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 12%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,099 girls have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vaughn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 61 | |
| 1900s | 142 | |
| 1910s | 851 | |
| 1920s | 1,262 | |
| 1930s | 1,263 | |
| 1940s | 2,382 | |
| 1950s | 2,432 | |
| 1960s | 2,548 | |
| 1970s | 1,606 | |
| 1980s | 1,453 | |
| 1990s | 1,702 | |
| 2000s | 2,325 | |
| 2010s | 2,266 | |
| 2020s | 877 |
In 1949, its biggest year
Vaughn was the 348th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1949 were James, Robert, John, William and Michael. See all of 1949.
Names that rose and fell with Vaughn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vincentpeak 1962
- Vancepeak 1969
- Benitopeak 2023
- Alfonsopeak 1991
- Clarkepeak 1947
- Victorpeak 1990
- Landispeak 2006
- Willypeak 1993
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.