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Vashon

The boy's name Vashon has been in the national records since 1972, with 836 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 790 Vashons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 36.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Vashon boys named Vashon

By the numbers

Total US births
836
Estimated living today
790
Median age today
36
Peak year
1973
Best rank
804th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1972
Girls / boys
69 / 767

How old the living Vashons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 836 babies given the name since 1972, about 790 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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.

Where Vashon is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Vashon is most concentrated in Florida (5.3×), Illinois (3.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1973

The most popular boys’ names the year Vashon peaked:

All the names of 1973

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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.