Virgilia — girls' name
99 babies named Virgilia in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1986. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Virgilia was born in this single decade.
12 babies were named Virgilia in 1986 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Virgilia
The Social Security Administration has registered 99 babies named Virgilia between 1915 and 1999, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Virgilia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 12 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Virgilia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 24 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Virgilia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Virgilia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 99 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Virgilia at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Virgilia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1915
- Peak year (1986)
- 12
- Annual births at peak — across 85 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
99 total births across 85 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1986 with 12 births in a single year.
Virgilia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 24 births that decade — 24% of Virgilia's all-time total
Virgilia decade highlights
- Peak decade 24 births
- Runner-up 19 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Virgilia's strongest decade
24 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.