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Vasiliki vs Vassie

American parents have registered 1,227 Vasilikis since 1880, against 781 Vassies. Vasiliki is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vasiliki against Vassie, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vasiliki Vassie

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 128 years in which either name was published, Vasiliki for 66 years and Vassie for 62 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Vasiliki Vassie
Total US births 1,227781
Most in one year 3525
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 1,20080
Median age today 3682
Peak year 19761915
Best rank 2,334th girls1,439th girls
Rank in 2025 8,860thunranked
First recorded 19201884
Girls / boys 1,227 / 0781 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Vassies alive today are over 82; half the Vasilikis are over 36. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Vasiliki and Vassie.