Vilas vs Villa
American parents have registered 749 Villas since 1880, against 507 Vilases. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vilas Villa
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 77 years in which either name was published, Villa for 54 years and Vilas for 23 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1885–1916 Villa ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1917–1932 Vilas ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1933–1967 Villa ahead, apart from 2 short spells
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Vilas | Villa | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 507 | 749 |
| Most in one year | 27 | 31 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 50 | 130 |
| Median age today | 80 | 77 |
| Peak year | 1917 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 1,322nd boys | 1,475th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1885 |
| Girls / boys | 14 / 493 | 722 / 27 |
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 Vilases alive today are over 80; half the Villas are over 77. That is 3 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: Vilas and Villa.