Vessie vs Vester
American parents have registered 3,228 Vesters since 1880, against 518 Vessies. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vessie Vester
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 104 years in which either name was published, Vester for 99 years and Vessie for 5 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
Side by side
| Vessie | Vester | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 518 | 3,228 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 95 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 50 | 710 |
| Median age today | 81 | 71 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 1,605th girls | 766th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1881 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 513 / 5 | 662 / 2,566 |
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 Vessies alive today are over 81; half the Vesters are over 71. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vessie and Vester.