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Vila vs Vilas

American parents have registered 536 Vilas since 1880, against 507 Vilases. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vila against Vilas, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vila Vilas

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Vila for 30 years and Vilas for 28 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Vila Vilas
Total US births 536507
Most in one year 2427
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 8050
Median age today 8180
Peak year 19261917
Best rank 1,721st girls1,322nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18931913
Girls / boys 536 / 014 / 493

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vila and Vilas.