Name profile

Vesta

A name meaning "Vesta".

PronunciationLatin /ˈwes.ta/; English /ˈvɛs.tə/
Usage languagesRoman Mythology
US rank (2024)#15,293

Meaning and history

Probably a Roman cognate of Hestia, Vesta was the Roman goddess of the hearth, and a continuous fire tended by the Vestal Virgins burned in her temple in Rome.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: 6 births, rank #15,491
2008: 7 births, rank #13,832
2009: 7 births, rank #13,704
20102010: 7 births, rank #13,448
2011: 8 births, rank #12,153
2012: 6 births, rank #14,962
2013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: 6 births, rank #14,558
20152015: no US SSA record for this spelling
2016: 9 births, rank #10,859
2017: 15 births, rank #7,442
2018: no US SSA record for this spelling
2019: 6 births, rank #13,799
20202020: 5 births, rank #15,088
2021: 7 births, rank #12,206
2022: 10 births, rank #9,680
2023: 8 births, rank #11,169
20242024: 5 births, rank #15,293

Vesta moved from #864 to #920 for girls between 1941 and 1942. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 257 births.