Vesta
Vesta is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 279th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918257 births
- Best rank
- #279in 1894
- Since 1880
- 8,181people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,181 girls have been named Vesta in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 257 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 257 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vesta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 320 | |
| 1890s | 750 | |
| 1900s | 1,031 | |
| 1910s | 1,798 | |
| 1920s | 1,668 | |
| 1930s | 940 | |
| 1940s | 628 | |
| 1950s | 414 | |
| 1960s | 223 | |
| 1970s | 123 | |
| 1980s | 83 | |
| 1990s | 66 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 57 | |
| 2020s | 35 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Vesta was the 408th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Vesta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Omapeak 1916
- Verdiepeak 1918
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Maudiepeak 1918
- Essiepeak 1921
- Madgepeak 1920
- Vivapeak 1921
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.