girls:
193 births since 1955
#5523 (3rd percentile)
boys:
299 births since 1915
#4287 (6th percentile)
overall:
492 births since 1915
#7247 (6th percentile)
The name Vandy is the #7,247 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 492 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,287 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 299 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,523 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 193 births since 1955.
Vandy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1955 for girls). Birth data for Vandy is available in 49 out of the 80 years between 1915 and 1994 (43 years for boys and 25 years for girls). 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 Vandy has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (60.8% of all recorded births). In 1994, 100.0% of babies named Vandy were boys.
For boys, Vandy reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #592) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
For girls, Vandy reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #762) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vandy".
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