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 | — | — | ||
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| 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 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
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1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 14,991 of them was named Vergil, which outranked 84.1% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).