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Vane

Vane reached its high-water mark in 1919 at number 2,511, and has been recorded 152 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1960. About 12 Vanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 6 9 12 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Vane

By the numbers

Total US births
152
Estimated living today
12
Median age today
70
Peak year
1919
Best rank
2,511th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1892

How old the living Vanes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 6 9 12 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 152 babies given the name since 1892, about 12 are alive — 8 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Vanes

People named Vane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1919

The most popular boys’ names the year Vane peaked:

All the names of 1919

Related names

Vane against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.