Vanity
Vanity is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1988116 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1982
- 1,845people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,845 girls have been named Vanity in the United States since 1982, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 116 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1980s alone account for 32%.
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Vanity was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1988 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Sarah and Jennifer. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Vanity
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maleriepeak 1987
- Alysepeak 1988
- Malloripeak 1986
- Kellynpeak 1985
- Mallorypeak 1986
- Sashapeak 1988
- Malorypeak 1987
- Farrenpeak 1986
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.