girls:
69 births since 1973
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
762 births since 1972
#3825 (17th percentile)
overall:
831 births since 1972
#6908 (11th percentile)
The name Vashon is the #6,908 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 831 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 10.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,825 (16.5% percentile) for all time with 762 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1973.
Vashon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1973 for girls). Birth data for Vashon is available in 47 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 7 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 Vashon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vashon reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 14.2% percentile (ranked #553) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 59 births per million (ranked 14.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Vashon ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vashon reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #716) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vashon".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Vashon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.1% confident that Vashon is pronounced as VAH-shuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VAH-shahn, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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