Van
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#972
down −59 places
2025 births
236
down −21 births
All-time births
29,432
1% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1954
- 573 births
- Best rank
- #234
- in 1891
- First recorded
- 1880
- #290 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1963
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1954573#298Peak
- 1953572#294
- 1947569#289
- 1946567#265
- 1955547#313
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #234 in 1891 · peak births 573 in 1954
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 94% boys■ 6% girls
29,432 boys · 1,762 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Van has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.