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Voncile vs Vondal

American parents have registered 1,445 Vonciles since 1880, against 7 Vondals. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Voncile against Vondal, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Voncile Vondal

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

Voncile has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1910 to 1972. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1933, when Voncile had 37 and Vondal had 7.

Side by side

  Voncile Vondal
Total US births 1,4457
Most in one year 427
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5201
Median age today 7692
Peak year 19411933
Best rank 1,151st girls3,004th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19101933
Girls / boys 1,445 / 00 / 7

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 Vondals alive today are over 92; half the Vonciles are over 76. That is 16 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: Voncile and Vondal.