Vega

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Vega boys named Vega

Girls and boys called Vega

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 746 girls and 190 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 31 to 12.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 18 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

936

Estimated living today

920

Median age today

8

Peak year

2019

Best rank

3,085th

Rank in 2025

4,460th

First recorded

1918

Girls / boys

746 / 190

How old the living Vegas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 936 babies given the name since 1918, about 920 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 770 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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 Vegas

• Vega Gimeno (born 1991)Spanish basketball player
• Vega (born 1979)Spanish singer-songwriter

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

Where Vega is most common

• CA19
• NY10
• FL5

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

Names of 2019

The most popular girls’ names the year Vega peaked:

• Olivia
• Emma
• Ava
• Sophia
• Isabella
• Charlotte

All the names of 2019

Vega elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Vega: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Vega: rank by region

In 2024, Vega was among the 10 most common names in 12 regions of Spain.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Vega among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Vega lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 21,739 women called Vega were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.