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Ville vs Vilma

American parents have registered 4,989 Vilmas since 1880, against 15 Villes. Vilma is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ville Vilma

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

Vilma has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1901 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Ville had 8 and Vilma had 14.

Side by side

  Ville Vilma
Total US births 154,989
Most in one year 8213
Babies in 2025 under 514
Estimated living today 152,800
Median age today 1552
Peak year 20101927
Best rank 8,803rd boys477th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,491st
First recorded 20071901
Girls / boys 0 / 154,989 / 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 Vilmas alive today are over 52; half the Villes are over 15. That is 37 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: Ville and Vilma.