How Many People Are Named Vaughn?
people named Vaughn are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 21,569 people in the US has this name
Based on 22,484 babies named Vaughn in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
385 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a Welsh surname which was derived from Welsh bychan meaning "little".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Vaughn in English. Counting Vaughn and these spellings together, about 16,955 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Vaughn, 4.8% were girls and 95.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1900s: 8.4% of the babies were girls then and 10% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Vaughn alive today is about 40 years old, and 42% are under 30. Half of them were between 17 and 61 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Vaughn first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1949, to 385 babies. In 2025, 204 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Vaughn has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #348, in 1949. In 2025 it ranked #1,153.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,153 |
| Best rank | #348 (1949) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #492 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Vaughn alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Vaughn were born in California than in any other state: about 1,476 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Vaughn was given 4.6 times as often in Maine, 3.3 times in Utah and 2.1 times in Pennsylvania.
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