Vasco

boys:

492 births since 1910

#4094 (11th percentile)

overall:

492 births since 1910

#7247 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Vasco 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 1910. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,094 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 492 births since 1910.

Vasco first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for boys in 1910). Birth data for Vasco is available in 66 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023. 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 boys, Vasco reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #489) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 34 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Vasco ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 9.8% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vasco".

1910 2023 19102023

Key Statistics

Total Births
492
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
1916
First Recorded
1910
Peak Percentile
2.6%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#489
Current Rank
#910
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Vasco

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vasco. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 80.0% confident that Vasco is pronounced as VA-skoh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VAH-skoh, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

2
80.0%
2
20.0%
VA-skoh (2 syllables)
Verified
80.0% confidence
V AE1 S K OW0
VAH-skoh (2 syllables)
20.0% confidence
V AA1 S K OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Vasco? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Vasco. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Vasco, please vote using the thumbs up button.

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like V AE1 S K OW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

© 2025 NamePlay.org

Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker