Vida

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Vida is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 246 births. Its best rank was 320th, in 1903.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 2460.02% of girls
Peak year: 2022277 births
Best rank: #320in 1903
Since 1880: 12,247people given the name

Babies named Vida, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

12,247 girls have been named Vida in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 277 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Vida
1880s	307
1890s	641
1900s	808
1910s	1,564
1920s	1,812
1930s	998
1940s	647
1950s	745
1960s	640
1970s	307
1980s	215
1990s	200
2000s	542
2010s	1,630
2020s	1,191

In 2022, its biggest year

Vida was the 964th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Vida

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.