girls:
14 births since 1914
#5702 (0th percentile)
boys:
493 births since 1913
#4093 (11th percentile)
overall:
507 births since 1913
#7232 (7th percentile)
The name Vilas is the #7,232 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 507 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 6.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,093 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 493 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,702 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1914.
Vilas first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Vilas is available in 36 out of the 71 years between 1913 and 1983 (36 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 Vilas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vilas reached its peak popularity in 1913, achieving the 4.7% percentile (ranked #389) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 45 births per million (ranked 4.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1983.
For girls, Vilas reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #605) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1920.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vilas".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Vilas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.6% confident that Vilas is pronounced as VIH-luhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEE-luhs, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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