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Villa vs Ville

American parents have registered 749 Villas since 1880, against 15 Villes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Villa against Ville, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Villa Ville

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 75 years in which either name was published, Villa for 73 years and Ville for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Villa Ville
Total US births 74915
Most in one year 318
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 13015
Median age today 7715
Peak year 19152010
Best rank 1,475th girls8,803rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18852007
Girls / boys 722 / 270 / 15

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 Villas alive today are over 77; half the Villes are over 15. That is 62 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: Villa and Ville.