Vashti
2025 SSA
About Vashti
This Persian name with an Old Testament pedigree has a warm Sasha-like feel. The Biblical Vashti was a queen who refused her husband's orders to appear naked in front of his party guests and so was deposed in favor of Esther. For her independent spirit, Vashti has become something of a feminist icon.
Pronounced VASH-tee.
As of October 2026, Vashti ranked #8823 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #793 in 1902.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Vashti on lists
Famous Vashtis
- Vashti
biblical Persian Queen who refused to appear nude in front of her husband at a party
- Vashti Bartlett (1873
1969), US nurse who served with the American Red Cross during World War I, and in Siberia and Manchuria after the war
- (Jennifer) Vashti Bunyan (b. 1945)
English folk singer,songwriter
- Vashti Clarke
Jamaican model, actress and entrepreneur
- Vashti Cunningham (b. 1998)
US track and field athlete specializing in the high jump
- Vashti McCollum (1912
2006) the plaintiff in the landmark 1948 Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education, which struck down religious education in public schools
- Vashtie Kola (often stylized as Va$htie)
US music video director, filmmaker, artist, designer, creative consultant and disc jockey
- Vashti Murphy McKenzie (b. 1947)
bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Vashti Whitfield
widow of Spartacus actor Andy Whitfield
Vashti in pop culture
- Vashti
"devilish" actress in Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette' (based on the real,life actress Rachel Félix)
- Vashti
character in E.M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops'
- 'Vashti' (1869)
novel by Augusta Jane Evans
- Vashti
a rural Texan character in the 1956 film 'Giant' starring Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson
- Pronounced "VASH
tye" with a long "I"