Vanity
Girl · VAN-ih-tee · English
Vanity is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “vanity, pride”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).
What does Vanity mean?
English: English word, from Latin vanitas
“vanity, pride”
From the English word, via Latin vanitas 'emptiness', as in the biblical 'vanity of vanities'.
- Say it
- VAN-ih-tee
Is Vanity a girl's or a boy's name?
Vanity is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Vanity in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,883among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 120,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Vanity, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,310th. Its busiest year was 1988, with 116 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.
2025 had fewer girls named Vanity than any year since 1982.
Half of all the girls named Vanity in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.
Vanity in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,883 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,917 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,087 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,310 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,006 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,847 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,249 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,034 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,267 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,266 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,643 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,243 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,074 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,160 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,760 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,674 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,367 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,812 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,885 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,103 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,659 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,891 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,219 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,812 |
| 1996 | 27 | #3,937 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,875 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,983 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,568 |
| 1992 | 66 | #2,054 |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,052 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,824 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,441 |
| 1988 | 116 | #1,260 |
| 1987 | 89 | #1,458 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,571 |
| 1985 | 103 | #1,297 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,191 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,857 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
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