Vashti
Vashti is a girl's name that peaked in 1922, when it was the 1,232nd most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as Persian. In 2025 it ranked 8,362nd. About 1,400 Vashtis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vashti
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,355
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,232nd
- Rank in 2025
- 8,362nd
- First recorded
- 1882
How old the living Vashtis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,355 babies given the name since 1882, about 1,400 are alive — 61 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Persian
Borrowed from Hebrew וַשְׁתִּי.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Vashtis
- Vashti Cunningham (born 1998)American athletics competitor
- Vashti Bunyan (born 1945)English singer-songwriter
People named Vashti with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vashti is most common
Across the country Vashti is recorded 0.04 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Vashtis are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular girls’ names the year Vashti peaked:
Related names
Vashti 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.