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Viraaj vs Virgle

American parents have registered 2,229 Virgles since 1880, against 579 Viraajs. But in 2025 it was Viraaj that was commoner, 19 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Viraaj against Virgle, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Viraaj Virgle

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 104 years in which either name was published, Virgle for 84 years and Viraaj for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Viraaj Virgle
Total US births 5792,229
Most in one year 6192
Babies in 2025 19under 5
Estimated living today 580420
Median age today 774
Peak year 20161924
Best rank 2,207th boys677th boys
Rank in 2025 5,045thunranked
First recorded 20061886
Girls / boys 0 / 57933 / 2,196

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 Virgles alive today are over 74; half the Viraajs are over 7. That is 67 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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