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Viridiana vs Virtie

American parents have registered 4,273 Viridianas since 1880, against 139 Virties. Viridiana is still ahead, with 22 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Viridiana Virtie

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 68 years in which either name was published, Viridiana for 47 years and Virtie for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Viridiana Virtie
Total US births 4,273139
Most in one year 23311
Babies in 2025 22under 5
Estimated living today 4,20011
Median age today 2787
Peak year 19951927
Best rank 838th girls2,859th girls
Rank in 2025 5,554thunranked
First recorded 19731906
Girls / boys 4,268 / 5139 / 0

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 Virties alive today are over 87; half the Viridianas are over 27. That is 60 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: Viridiana and Virtie.