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Virgina vs Virgle

American parents have registered 2,229 Virgles since 1880, against 1,601 Virginas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Virgina 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 119 years in which either name was published, Virgle for 62 years and Virgina for 57 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Virgina Virgle
Total US births 1,6012,229
Most in one year 3892
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 870420
Median age today 5574
Peak year 19221924
Best rank 1,269th girls677th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19001886
Girls / boys 1,601 / 033 / 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 Virginas are over 55. That is 19 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: Virgina and Virgle.