Meaning not yet researched.
Vidal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #623 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #623 in 1972; #3,121 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vidal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,121 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #623.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Vidal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #623 in 1972 · most boys in one year: 160 (1972).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Vidal, making it the 3,121st most common boys’ name of the year, up 87 places from #3,208 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 38 boys named Vidal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #623, reached in 1972. That year also had the most boys given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #2,962 in 2015 and #1,571 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vidal in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 9 babies. In all, 4,247 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 751 babies named Vidal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 390 US boys were named Vidal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Videl, Videll and Vidale are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Videl (277), Videll (23), Vidale (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vidal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 39 | #3,121 |
| 2024 | — | — | 38 | #3,208 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,624 |
| 2022 | — | — | 49 | #2,713 |
| 2021 | — | — | 36 | #3,290 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #4,011 |
| 2019 | — | — | 37 | #3,190 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,165 |
| 2017 | — | — | 46 | #2,710 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,550 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,962 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,779 |
| 2013 | — | — | 46 | #2,621 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,175 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,624 |
| 2010 | — | — | 54 | #2,373 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,284 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,430 |
| 2007 | — | — | 55 | #2,369 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,282 |
| 2005 | — | — | 56 | #2,180 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,099 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,959 |
| 2002 | — | — | 68 | #1,722 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,797 |
| 2000 | — | — | 63 | #1,767 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,854 |
| 1998 | — | — | 65 | #1,619 |
| 1997 | — | — | 73 | #1,478 |
| 1996 | — | — | 69 | #1,479 |
| 1995 | — | — | 87 | #1,255 |
| 1994 | — | — | 78 | #1,330 |
| 1993 | — | — | 95 | #1,154 |
| 1992 | — | — | 80 | #1,273 |
| 1991 | — | — | 83 | #1,226 |
| 1990 | — | — | 67 | #1,369 |
| 1989 | — | — | 59 | #1,431 |
| 1988 | — | — | 72 | #1,202 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,203 | 46 | #1,562 |
| 1986 | — | — | 47 | #1,474 |
| 1985 | — | — | 58 | #1,267 |
| 1984 | — | — | 54 | #1,263 |
| 1983 | — | — | 57 | #1,221 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,277 |
| 1981 | — | — | 61 | #1,187 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,165 |
| 1979 | — | — | 59 | #1,192 |
| 1978 | — | — | 48 | #1,325 |
| 1977 | — | — | 42 | #1,429 |
| 1976 | — | — | 51 | #1,223 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,450 |
| 1974 | — | — | 52 | #1,150 |
| 1973 | — | — | 91 | #838 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,632 | 160 | #623 |
| 1971 | — | — | 32 | #1,557 |
| 1970 | — | — | 30 | #1,580 |
| 1969 | — | — | 32 | #1,435 |
| 1968 | — | — | 28 | #1,503 |
| 1967 | — | — | 23 | #1,648 |
| 1966 | — | — | 25 | #1,576 |
| 1965 | — | — | 27 | #1,511 |
| 1964 | — | — | 26 | #1,578 |
| 1963 | — | — | 21 | #1,790 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,421 |
| 1961 | — | — | 31 | #1,466 |
| 1960 | — | — | 32 | #1,432 |
| 1959 | — | — | 37 | #1,300 |
| 1958 | — | — | 31 | #1,419 |
| 1957 | — | — | 26 | #1,581 |
| 1956 | — | — | 20 | #1,818 |
| 1955 | — | — | 24 | #1,608 |
| 1954 | — | — | 33 | #1,332 |
| 1953 | — | — | 32 | #1,354 |
| 1952 | — | — | 36 | #1,244 |
| 1951 | — | — | 27 | #1,458 |
| 1950 | — | — | 23 | #1,571 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #3,006 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,813 |
| 1947 | — | — | 19 | #1,785 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #2,025 |
| 1945 | — | — | 20 | #1,534 |
| 1944 | — | — | 21 | #1,523 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,830 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,143 |
| 1941 | — | — | 21 | #1,528 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,074 |
| 1939 | — | — | 19 | #1,577 |
| 1938 | — | — | 20 | #1,555 |
| 1937 | — | — | 16 | #1,824 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,870 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,655 |
| 1934 | — | — | 27 | #1,321 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,210 |
| 1932 | — | — | 15 | #1,988 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,465 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,072 |
| 1929 | — | — | 21 | #1,670 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #2,042 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,120 |
| 1926 | — | — | 17 | #1,978 |
| 1925 | — | — | 12 | #2,584 |
| 1924 | — | — | 15 | #2,221 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,856 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,624 |
| 1921 | — | — | 14 | #2,370 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,481 |
| 1919 | — | — | 14 | #2,258 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,706 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,202 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,889 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,580 |
| 1909 | — | — | 9 | #1,081 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).