Virgel
Virgel was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 1,193 Americans have been recorded with it between 1896 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Virgel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Virgel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,166, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1920, the peak
Virgel peaked in 1920, when 53 babies were given it (47 boys, #1,018 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #9,166 | 2.5 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,473 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,299 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,620 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,724 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,892 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,409 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,301 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,725 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,956 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 7 | #3,529 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #3,028 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #3,088 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,653 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,972 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,635 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,526 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,525 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,955 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,313 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,892 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,505 | 5.7 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,655 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,431 | 6.1 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,118 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,779 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,070 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,025 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | #1,922 | 10.4 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,074 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,830 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,679 | 13.8 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,754 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,517 | 18.1 |
| 1939 | 16 | #1,789 | 14.5 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,520 | 18.9 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,369 | 23.4 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,382 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,705 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,495 | 21.3 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,585 | 20.2 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,384 | 24.9 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,143 | 34.6 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,214 | 31.9 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,410 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,226 | 31.6 |
| 1927 | 32 | #1,320 | 28.4 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,511 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,142 | 34.9 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,092 | 38.8 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,075 | 41.1 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,218 | 33.1 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,196 | 33.6 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,018 | 44.2 |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,121 | 39.8 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,171 | 35.5 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,151 | 37.8 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,642 | 22.5 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,369 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,151 | 39.7 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,669 | 23.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,737 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,729 | 26.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,538 | 34.1 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,240 | 45.1 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,297 | 41.9 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,052 | 56.4 |
| 1896 | 8 | #892 | 66.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Virgel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Virgel has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Virgel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Virgel, and how old are they?
An estimated 231 Americans named Virgel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 60 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 257 people named Virgel (18 women and girls, 239 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 318 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 74,871 babies since 1880, Virgel is the second most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 129 babies recorded by SSA was a Virgel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Virgel
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.
More about Virgel and names like it
- Compare Virgel and VirgilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sVirgel peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Virgel since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Virgel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Virgel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.