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Vidal

#3,120 in 2025Boys' name

Vital; life-giving

Vidal has been given to 4,247 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #3,120 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1972, with 160 recorded.

Babies named Vidal, 2025

1 in 85,000

Vidal over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vidal: meaning, origin, and history

Vital; life-giving

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vidal means

Vidal means “vital; life-giving”, associated with vītālis.

Origin, language, and formation

Vidal is used in Catalan.

Vidal comes through Latin vītālis.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Vidal is pronounced [biˈðal].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,237 boys were recorded with the name Vidal between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 160 in 1972; its best national rank was #623 in 1972.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,008 in 2020 to #3,120 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,961 in 2015 to #3,120 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Vidal between 1972 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1972; its best national rank was #9,630 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vidal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,120
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vidal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vidal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vidals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vidal was born before 1987 — so the typical Vidal is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
17.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,719
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Choose a decade

1990s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (751).

Is Vidal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+888
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−159
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.4%
Peak was 1972 (160)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#623
1972

Spellings of Vidal

Vidal is not the most common spelling — Aidan is, with 73.1% against Vidal's 2.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vidal is used

Across 1910–2025, Vidal was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 43,495 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vidal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vidal around the world

Where Vidal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1907–2005
    #4,700
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vidal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,120
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 888
Best rank ever
#623
1972
Peak year
1972
160 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,237
Count in 2025
39

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,630
1972
Peak year
1972
5 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
1987
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vidal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Vidal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vidal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Vidal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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