Virgil

At the 2020 census, 2,583 Americans bore the surname Virgil — 11,628th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 116,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,583
Rank: 11,628th
How common: 1 in 116,000
Per 100,000: 0.86

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Virgil described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 48.7%
White, not Hispanic 32.0%
Hispanic or Latino 13.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Virgil

Virgil (1951–2024)American professional wrestler

People named Virgil with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Virgil

Also a first name

Virgil has been given to 73,453 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.