girls:
1.7k births since 1893
#4080 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1893
#6067 (22nd percentile)
The name Vanda is the #6,067 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,683 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 21.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,080 (28.6% percentile) for all time with 1,683 births since 1893.
Vanda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (first recorded for girls in 1893). Birth data for Vanda is available in 89 out of the 110 years between 1893 and 2002. 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.
For girls, Vanda reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #731) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vanda".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vanda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.7% confident that Vanda is pronounced as VAN-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VAHN-duh, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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