How Many People Are Named Vesta?
people named Vesta are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 223,388 people in the US has this name
Based on 8,208 babies named Vesta in Social Security records from 1880 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
257 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Probably a Roman cognate of HESTIA. Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth. A continuous fire, tended by the Vestal Virgins, was burned in the Temple of Vesta in Rome.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Vesta in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Vesta alive today is about 65 years old, and 70% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 54 and 82 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Vesta first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 257 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Vesta has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #279, in 1894.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #279 (1894) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #411 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Vesta alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Vesta were born in Texas than in any other state: about 45 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Vesta was given 4.1 times as often in Oklahoma, 3.5 times in Kansas and 3.4 times in West Virginia.
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