Male name
Vidal
4,247 births (United States, 1880–2025), peaking in 1972. Expression number: 3.
Origin
From Occitan Vidal, related to Vital, from Latin vitalis ("vital").Translated by Arcanes from the French Wiktionnaire, entry “Vidal”, text and translation under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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How many babies received it
From the official birth registers.
In the United States
Peak in 1972: 165 births. 4,247 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given steadily, decade after decade, from the 1970s to the 2020s. It really came into use around 1929. It is still given: 194 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
The numbers of the name
Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.
■ vowel · ■ consonant
Expression
All the letters: talents, the way you act.
3
expression, creativity, sociability
4 + 9 + 4 + 1 + 3 = 21 → 3
Soul
The vowels: what drives you deep down.
1
initiative, independence, beginnings
9 + 1 = 10 → 1
Personality
The consonants: what others notice first.
11
intuition and inspiration (master number)
4 + 4 + 3 = 11
- Digits missing from the name
- 2, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Most frequent digit
- 4 · work, structure, stability
The meaning of the numbers comes from numerological tradition; it isn't a measure of your personality. A full portrait needs your first and middle names, your last name at birth, and your date of birth. How we calculate
Your name and theirs
The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.