Girls' name · since 1916
Virtue
Virtue has 51 recorded births since 1916 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2015 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #34,913 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,316 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
51 babies have been named Virtue since 1916, making it today's #13316 girls' name.
Virtue has 51 recorded births among girls since 1916, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13316 as of the latest data, more common than 23% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 2025.
- #34,913 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #13,316 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 51 born since 1916
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Virtue ranks #34,913 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,316 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 51 born since 1916, peaking in the 2020s.
- #34,913 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #13,316 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 51
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
Virtue's 51 recorded births place it above 51.71% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Virtue compares
51 16th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Virtue's all-time total is 86% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Virtue | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 51 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Virtue's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Virtue splits its recorded history at 2018: 55% of all births land in the more recent half, 45% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2003 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2015 peak of 7 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Virtue popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–2025
- Peak year (2015)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 110 years of records
Virtue by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (22 births, 43% of the file).
2020s was Virtue's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Virtue births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 6
1910s
6 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s
2010s
18 births
- 2020s
2020s
22 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 22 births (43% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Virtue: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Virtue draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.