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Vashawn vs Vasilios

American parents have registered 1,500 Vasilioses since 1880, against 538 Vashawns. Vasilios is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vashawn against Vasilios, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vashawn Vasilios

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Vasilios has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Vashawn had 7 and Vasilios had 8.

Side by side

  Vashawn Vasilios
Total US births 5381,500
Most in one year 2445
Babies in 2025 618
Estimated living today 5201,400
Median age today 2833
Peak year 20001975
Best rank 4,066th boys1,280th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th5,208th
First recorded 19731923
Girls / boys 33 / 5050 / 1,500

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vasilioses alive today are over 33; half the Vashawns are over 28. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vashawn and Vasilios.