Vilas vs Ville
American parents have registered 507 Vilases since 1880, against 15 Villes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vilas Ville
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 38 years in which either name was published, Vilas for 36 years and Ville for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Vilas | Ville | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 507 | 15 |
| Most in one year | 27 | 8 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 50 | 15 |
| Median age today | 80 | 15 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 2010 |
| Best rank | 1,322nd boys | 8,803rd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 2007 |
| Girls / boys | 14 / 493 | 0 / 15 |
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.
Which name is older
Half of the Vilases alive today are over 80; half the Villes are over 15. That is 65 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Vilas and Ville.