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Girl Names That Start With V

These are the 42 girl names that start with V, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.

All 42 names

  1. Violet #13 7,546
  2. Valentina #35 5,354
  3. Victoria #54 4,027
  4. Vivian #70 3,362
  5. Valerie #127 2,221
  6. Valeria #162 1,835
  7. Vivienne #172 1,786
  8. Vera #205 1,482
  9. Viviana #331 928
  10. Vanessa #377 813
  11. Veronica #427 730
  12. Vienna #434 712
  13. Virginia #525 572
  14. Veda #738 370
  15. Vada #884 302
  16. Viola #1013 247
  17. Vida #1211 187
  18. Vallie #1872 105
  19. Valarie #3249 48
  20. Verna #3459 44
  21. Vicky #4067 35
  22. Verona #5099 25
  23. Viva #5554 22
  24. Velma #5722 21
  25. Vilma #7491 14
  26. Vina #11932 7
  27. Vinnie #13208 6
  28. Velda
  29. Vena
  30. Verda
  31. Verdie
  32. Vergie
  33. Verla
  34. Vernice
  35. Vernie
  36. Vesta
  37. Veva
  38. Vickey
  39. Vicki
  40. Vickie
  41. Virgie
  42. Vonda

Also starting with V, and now given almost only to boys: Vernell

Girl names that start with V in the 2025 data

V is the sixteenth most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 39,156 of them, 2.4% of every girl in the file. It has climbed from seventeenth place a decade ago, and its share has grown from 2.0% to 2.4%.

This list holds the 42 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Violet, #13 with 7,546 girls in 2025. 4 of the 42 are in this year's top 100, and 27 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Vernell is left out: it reached the top 500 among girls at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a girl. Together they account for 32,801 of those 39,156 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Vienna, up from #923 in 2015 to #434 in 2025. Vanessa has gone the other way, from #187 to #377. The shortest name here is Vada at 4 letters, the longest Valentina at 9.

Questions about girl names that start with V

What is the most popular girl name that starts with V?

Violet. 7,546 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #13 nationally.

How many girl names start with V?

42 have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 39,156 girls born in 2025 — 2.4% of the total — were given a name starting with V.

Are girl names that start with V getting more popular?

V is gaining ground. It was seventeenth among first letters for girls a decade ago with 2.0% of births, and it is sixteenth in 2025 with 2.4%.

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