Vashti vs Vassie
American parents have registered 2,355 Vashtis since 1880, against 781 Vassies. Vashti is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vashti Vassie
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
Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Vashti for 119 years and Vassie for 21 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1884–1892 Vassie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1893–1895 Vashti ahead
- 1896–1898 Vassie ahead
- 1902–1904 Vashti ahead
- 1908–1911 Vassie ahead
- 1912–2025 Vashti ahead, apart from 3 short spells
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Vashti | Vassie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,355 | 781 |
| Most in one year | 40 | 25 |
| Babies in 2025 | 12 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,400 | 80 |
| Median age today | 33 | 82 |
| Peak year | 1922 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 1,232nd girls | 1,439th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,362nd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 2,355 / 0 | 781 / 0 |
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 Vassies alive today are over 82; half the Vashtis are over 33. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vashti and Vassie.