How Many People Are Named Vergil?
people named Vergil are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 616,940 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,024 babies named Vergil in Social Security records from 1886 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
76 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of VIRGIL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Vergil in English. Counting Vergil and these spellings together, about 23,210 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Vergil (99.9%) were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 4.5% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Vergil alive today is about 47 years old, and 43% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 9 and 73 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Vergil first appears in the records in 1886 and was given most often in 1921, to 76 babies. In 2025, 19 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1886 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Vergil has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #671, in 1896. In 2025 it ranked #5,190.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #5,190 |
| Best rank | #671 (1896) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #956 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Vergil alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Vergil were born in Tennessee than in any other state: about 1 of those alive today.
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