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Virgle vs Viridiana

American parents have registered 4,273 Viridianas since 1880, against 2,229 Virgles. Viridiana is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Virgle against Viridiana, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Virgle Viridiana

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 129 years in which either name was published, Virgle for 82 years and Viridiana for 47 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Virgle Viridiana
Total US births 2,2294,273
Most in one year 92233
Babies in 2025 under 522
Estimated living today 4204,200
Median age today 7427
Peak year 19241995
Best rank 677th boys838th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,554th
First recorded 18861973
Girls / boys 33 / 2,1964,268 / 5

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 Viridianas are over 27. That is 47 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: Virgle and Viridiana.