How Many People Are Named Vasco?

259

people named Vasco are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 1,319,632 people in the US has this name

Based on 523 babies named Vasco in Social Security records from 1910 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#24,130

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#8,612

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Peak Year

1916

18 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Pronunciation: BAS-ko (Spanish), VASH-koo (Portuguese)
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

From the medieval Spanish name Velasco which possibly meant "crow" in Basque. A famous bearer was the 15th-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail from Europe around Africa to India.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

Velasco

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.0%
Male
100.0%

All of the babies given the name Vasco in the records were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Vasco alive today is about 28 years old, and 67% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 43 in 2025.

Under 30 173
66.8%
30 to 59 36
13.9%
60 and over 50
19.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Vasco first appears in the records in 1910 and was given most often in 1916, to 18 babies. In 2025, 14 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1910 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Vasco has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,411, in 1910. In 2025 it ranked #6,420.

Boys
Rank in 2025#6,420
Best rank#1,411 (1910)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,172 in the 1910s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Vasco alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Vasco were born in Florida than in any other state: about 5 of those alive today.

Florida 5

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