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Ved vs Vedanth

American parents have registered 1,954 Veds since 1880, against 569 Vedanths. Ved is still ahead, with 188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ved against Vedanth, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ved Vedanth

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

Ved has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1999 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Ved had 51 and Vedanth had 25.

Side by side

  Ved Vedanth
Total US births 1,954569
Most in one year 18858
Babies in 2025 18847
Estimated living today 1,900570
Median age today 77
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 1,131st boys2,393rd boys
Rank in 2025 1,131st2,718th
First recorded 19992003
Girls / boys 0 / 1,9540 / 569

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ved Vedanth
England and Wales 35748

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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