Vergil
About 2,024 American babies have been named Vergil since 1886, most of them around 1920. In 2025 it ranked 5,045th. About 550 Vergils are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vergil boys named Vergil
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,024
- Estimated living today
- 550
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 792nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,045th
- First recorded
- 1886
- Girls / boys
- 56 / 1,968
How old the living Vergils are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,024 babies given the name since 1886, about 550 are alive — 27 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Vergil is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vergil is most concentrated in Oklahoma (11.8×), Kentucky (8.8×), Texas (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Vergil peaked:
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Vergil against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.