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Vaughan

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Vaughan is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
70.00% of boys
Peak year
200634 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1911
1,610people given the name
Babies named Vaughan, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,610 boys have been named Vaughan in the United States since 1911, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 34 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 1969, and the 2000s alone account for 12%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Vaughan
1910s117
1920s136
1930s95
1940s159
1950s158
1960s144
1970s108
1980s98
1990s176
2000s191
2010s181
2020s47

In 2006, its biggest year

Vaughan was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.

Names that rose and fell with Vaughan

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.