Vada

What Vada means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Vada yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #884 vs #2,278 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Vada?

US: Rising: up from #1082 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4103 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1901, when 84 girls got the name (#331 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,322 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 21,107 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (1.58 per 1,000 girls), WI (0.74 per 1,000 girls), MO (0.54 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Vada is #884 in the US and #2278 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Vada were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Veda370 US · 44 E&W
• Vida187 US · 8 E&W
• Vayda148 US
• Vaeda134 US
• Vaida42 US
• Vita32 US · 8 E&W
• Veyda25 US
• Vedaa6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Vada

Girls

• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Oakley#156“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Aspen#266Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Aspen in 2025 were girls
• Parker#106From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Vivian#70possibly “alive”^*

For a brother

• Bodhi#265Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• Jaxson#156Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1991, with 13 babies
• Sawyer#122“one who saws”^*
• Legend#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #391 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Zayn#251“beauty”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Vada’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.