Virgil
Virgil is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 114 births. Its best rank was 93rd, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1140.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19211,830 births
- Best rank
- #93in 1907
- Since 1880
- 73,325people given the name
The story in the numbers
71,881 boys have been named Virgil in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 1,830 births — 0.17% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 114 births in 2024, against 1,830 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 112 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,444 girls have also been given it, 2.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Virgil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 827 | |
| 1890s | 1,349 | |
| 1900s | 2,134 | |
| 1910s | 10,858 | |
| 1920s | 15,992 | |
| 1930s | 11,363 | |
| 1940s | 8,950 | |
| 1950s | 7,287 | |
| 1960s | 5,208 | |
| 1970s | 3,147 | |
| 1980s | 1,746 | |
| 1990s | 1,067 | |
| 2000s | 685 | |
| 2010s | 764 | |
| 2020s | 504 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Virgil was the 98th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Virgil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Francispeak 1918
- Ottispeak 1920
- Clairpeak 1923
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Ervinpeak 1921
- Loydpeak 1926
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.