Vidal
Vidal reached its high-water mark in 1972 at number 621, and has been recorded 4,247 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,089th. About 3,600 Vidals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 33.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vidal boys named Vidal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,247
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 33
- Peak year
- 1972
- Best rank
- 621st
- Rank in 2025
- 3,089th
- First recorded
- 1909
- Girls / boys
- 10 / 4,237
How old the living Vidals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,247 babies given the name since 1909, about 3,600 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 750 of them are children and 320 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1992 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Vidals
- Vidal Sassoon (1928–2012)British hairstylist
People named Vidal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vidal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vidal is most concentrated in Texas (5.6×), California (4.0×), New Mexico (1.7×), New York (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1972
The most popular boys’ names the year Vidal peaked:
Vidal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Vidal | 110 | 4,700th |
| Switzerland boys | Vidal | 19 | 1,145th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vidal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Vidal | 11 | 0.001% | 1,036th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Vidal | 8 | 0.002% | 607th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Where Vidal lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,192 men called Vidal were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cáceres | Vidal | 161 | 0.837 | 163 |
| Palencia | Vidal | 58 | 0.736 | 172 |
| Ávila | Vidal | 44 | 0.545 | 199 |
| Burgos | Vidal | 89 | 0.490 | 217 |
| Salamanca | Vidal | 76 | 0.478 | 235 |
| Cantabria | Vidal | 128 | 0.445 | 229 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Vidal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.