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Vashon vs Vasiliki

American parents have registered 1,227 Vasilikis since 1880, against 836 Vashons. Vasiliki is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vashon against Vasiliki, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vashon Vasiliki

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 69 years in which either name was published, Vasiliki for 56 years and Vashon for 13 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Vashon Vasiliki
Total US births 8361,227
Most in one year 12535
Babies in 2025 511
Estimated living today 7901,200
Median age today 3636
Peak year 19731976
Best rank 804th boys2,334th girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th8,860th
First recorded 19721920
Girls / boys 69 / 7671,227 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vashon and Vasiliki.