Vergil
Vergil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 671st, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192071 births
- Best rank
- #671in 1896
- Since 1886
- 2,005people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,949 boys have been named Vergil in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 71 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 56 girls have also been given it, 2.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Vergil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 17 | |
| 1900s | 51 | |
| 1910s | 406 | |
| 1920s | 527 | |
| 1930s | 289 | |
| 1940s | 169 | |
| 1950s | 131 | |
| 1960s | 84 | |
| 1970s | 64 | |
| 1980s | 39 | |
| 1990s | 14 | |
| 2010s | 71 | |
| 2020s | 82 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Vergil was the 801st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Vergil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orlandpeak 1922
- Orvelpeak 1919
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Casimirpeak 1919
- Cletuspeak 1922
- Florianpeak 1921
- Burdettepeak 1922
- Foypeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.