Vergil
Vergil was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,190 among boys’ names; 2,024 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vergil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vergil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vergil is “a male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vergil?
#5,190 among boys’ names, 2025
Vergil rose from #11,996 in 2015 to #5,190 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 11.1 per million.
76 babies in 1921, the peak
Vergil peaked in 1921, when 76 babies were given it (71 boys, #812 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,190 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,264 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,190 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,287 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,312 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,208 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,075 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,578 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,148 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,694 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #11,996 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,639 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,606 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #14,214 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,291 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,473 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,477 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,308 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #4,040 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,714 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,354 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,506 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,851 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,619 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,622 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,810 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,436 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,932 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,899 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,611 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,213 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,844 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,503 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,921 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,624 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,066 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,678 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,817 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,314 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,530 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,396 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,312 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 22 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 34 | #1,148 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,157 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,173 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,168 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,005 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 40 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 46 | #1,020 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 47 | #1,043 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 67 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 71 | #812 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 71 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 66 | #808 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 55 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1917 | 66 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 58 | #820 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 54 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 35 | #947 | 0.05 |
| 1913 | 30 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 28 | #852 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,376 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,575 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,149 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,105 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,086 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 9 | #919 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,222 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,057 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,490 | 0.03 |
| 1896 | 12 | #671 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,245 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vergil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,024 Americans recorded as Vergil, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vergil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vergil, and how old are they?
An estimated 541 Americans named Vergil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 10 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 660 people named Vergil (27 women and girls, 633 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 556 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vergil
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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