Vanity
Vanity is a girl's name that peaked in 1988, when it was the 1,261st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 1,800 Vanitys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vanity
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,858
- Estimated living today
- 1,800
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 1,261st
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1982
How old the living Vanitys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,858 babies given the name since 1982, about 1,800 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 550 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Vanitys
- Vanity (1959–2016)Canadian singer, songwriter, model, actress
People named Vanity with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vanity is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vanity is most concentrated in Texas (4.4×), California (3.1×), Illinois (1.5×), New York (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Vanity peaked:
Related names
Vanity against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.