Vergil
Last seen for girls in 1927 at #4,805 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 97.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1896 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,968since 1886
Vergil over time
Rank among boys' names. Vergil has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,765 | 10 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,032 | 14 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,041 | 18 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,813 | 15 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,136 | 11 | |
| 2017 | — | #10,775 | 6 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | — | #10,644 | 6 | |
| 2014 | — | #9,642 | 7 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,789 | 8 | |
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | #12,287 | 5 | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | — | ||
| 2005 | — | — | ||
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
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| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,521 | 9 | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | #3,120 | 11 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,399 | 15 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,809 | 19 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,465 | 11 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,318 | 7 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,900 | 9 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,663 | 10 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,642 | 10 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,274 | 13 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,099 | 14 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,856 | 17 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,838 | 17 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,438 | 10 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,583 | 22 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,115 | 13 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,786 | 18 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,475 | 23 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,852 | 14 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,574 | 19 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,986 | 14 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,629 | 19 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,759 | 16 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,179 | 11 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,489 | 20 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,364 | 24 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,288 | 27 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,296 | 26 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,453 | 22 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,133 | 34 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,144 | 33 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,157 | 34 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,145 | 35 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,215 | 34 | |
| 1929 | — | #995 | 46 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,111 | 40 | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | #1,028 | 46 |
| 1926 | — | #992 | 48 | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | #1,012 | 46 |
| 1924 | — | #1,032 | 47 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | #821 | 67 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #1,046 | 45 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | #804 | 71 |
| 1920 | — | #792 | 71 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #799 | 66 |
| 1918 | — | #894 | 55 | |
| 1917 | #3,092 | 9 | #773 | 66 |
| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 | #810 | 58 |
| 1915 | — | #832 | 54 | |
| 1914 | — | #933 | 35 | |
| 1913 | — | #897 | 30 | |
| 1912 | — | #835 | 28 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,290 | 8 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,421 | 6 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,083 | 8 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,021 | 8 | |
| 1907 | — | #999 | 8 | |
| 1906 | — | #852 | 9 | |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 | #1,091 | 6 |
| 1904 | — | #966 | 7 | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 | — | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | #1,310 | 5 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | #641 | 12 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | #1,066 | 5 | |
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | #959 | 5 | |
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Vergil! It came in at #959, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1895, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Vergil
- 2,720 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #5,045)
- 4 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #5,045)
- 5,599 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #5,045)
- Biggest jump: 455 spots in 1912 (#1,290 → #835)
- Biggest drop: 242 spots in 1922 (#804 → #1,046)
- Debuted 1886
- Peaked 1896 at #641 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1897, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1912–1921
- Highest: 1 in 9,964 boys born in 1896 were named Vergil (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.8% of all boys named Vergil (527) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #959 (1886) | #959 |
| 1890s | 17 | #641 (1896) | #854 |
| 1900s | 51 | #852 (1906) | #1,046 |
| 1910s | 406 | #773 (1917) | #948 |
| 1920s | 527 | #792 (1920) | #963 |
| 1930s | 289 | #1,133 (1934) | #1,268 |
| 1940s | 169 | #1,475 (1946) | #1,794 |
| 1950s | 131 | #1,838 (1951) | #2,253 |
| 1960s | 84 | #1,809 (1967) | #2,982 |
| 1970s | 64 | #2,399 (1970) | #3,809 |
| 1980s | 39 | #3,282 (1982) | #4,937 |
| 1990s | 14 | #5,521 (1991) | #6,978 |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 71 | #5,813 (2019) | #8,929 |
| 2020s | 101 | #4,184 (2022) | #5,666 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Vergil in 1919
Top girls' names in 1919
Top boys' names in 1919
More about 1919
girls
1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 226,023 of them was named Vergil, which outranked 13.4% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 745 names at #4,814; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
980,122 boys got a published name in 1919; 1 in 14,850 of them was named Vergil, which outranked 83.4% of the 4,810 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).