How rare is the name Vada?

4,791 people in the United States have the first name Vada, about 1 in 63,041. It ranks #4,046 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

VADA

#4,046

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,791
About
1 in 63,041
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,791 people named Vada, 79.1% reported their origin as White, 7.6% as Black and 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.5% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Vada peaked in 2020, when 335 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2020
Births that year
335
In 2025*
302 ▼10%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 13,089 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Vada by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #592. The largest share of babies named Vada, 30.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#797222
1890s#592574
1900s#606775
1910s#7971,682
1920s#9331,877
1930s#1,0801,263
1940s#1,638743
1950s#2,484470
1960s#2,906410
1970s#7,126128
1980s#12,09273
1990s#7,595219
2000s#4,807588
2010s#2,0802,173
2020s#1,6331,892
Before 19016.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–2730.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4515.8%
Baby boom 1946–647.8%
Generation X 1965–802%
Millennials 1981–961.5%
Generation Z 1997–128.2%
2013 and later28%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Vada is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Vada has been most common in West Virginia (6.7×), Arkansas (4.2×), and Oklahoma (4.1×), and least common in New York (0.2×).

7,585 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Vada

#4,044 Lylah · 4,796#4,045 Tae · 4,793#4,047 Rosella · 4,790#4,047 Shaniya · 4,790

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Vada, most common first.

#8,886 Vayda · 1,602#14,965 Vaida · 777

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