About the name Vaughn
Vaughn belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Vaughn first appears in Social Security records in 1881. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #348 in 1949, and in 2024 174 babies received the name — 21,180 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.