girls:
388 births since 1952
#5328 (7th percentile)
boys:
107 births since 1915
#4479 (2nd percentile)
overall:
495 births since 1915
#7244 (6th percentile)
The name Vail is the #7,244 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 495 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,328 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 388 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,479 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 107 births since 1915.
Vail first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1952 for girls). Birth data for Vail is available in 31 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (19 years for girls and 18 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Vail has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Vail were girls. Interestingly, until around 1970, the name was more popular for boys (90.0% boys from 1915 to 1969), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (86.1% girls from 1970 to 2023).
For girls, Vail reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #913) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Vail ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 24.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vail reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #896) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vail".
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