girls:
10 births since 1972
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.2k births since 1909
#1895 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1909
#4239 (45th percentile)
The name Vidal is the #4,239 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,170 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 45.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,895 (58.7% percentile) for all time with 4,160 births since 1909. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1972.
Vidal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (1909 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Vidal is available in 110 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Vidal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vidal reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 23.2% percentile (ranked #508) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 96 births per million (ranked 23.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Vidal ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 18.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vidal reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #743) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vidal".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Vidal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.8% confident that Vidal is pronounced as vih-DAHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vee-DAHL, at 19.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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