Meaning not yet researched.
Vergil: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #671 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #671 in 1896; #5,191 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vergil in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,191 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #671.
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Vergil: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #671 in 1896 · most boys in one year: 71 (1921).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Vergil, making it the 5,191st most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,078 places from #8,269 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 10 boys named Vergil in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #671, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 1921. For comparison, it was #12,002 in 2015 and #2,571 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vergil in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 5 babies. In all, 2,024 US babies have been given the name, 2.8% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 554 babies named Vergil.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 146 US boys were named Vergil; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Virgil (73,453 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vergil in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 19 | #5,191 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,269 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,195 |
| 2022 | — | — | 25 | #4,291 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,317 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,212 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #6,080 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,582 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #12,153 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,699 |
| 2015 | — | — | 6 | #12,002 |
| 2014 | — | — | 7 | #10,645 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,611 |
| 2011 | — | — | 5 | #14,222 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,756 |
| 1991 | — | — | 9 | #5,917 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,296 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,197 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,474 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,229 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,479 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,821 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,714 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,310 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #4,042 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,717 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,356 |
| 1970 | — | — | 15 | #2,507 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,387 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,351 |
| 1967 | — | — | 19 | #1,852 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,620 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,841 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,631 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,623 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #3,082 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,649 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,806 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,369 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,621 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,975 |
| 1954 | — | — | 12 | #2,437 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,181 |
| 1952 | — | — | 17 | #1,933 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,900 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,571 |
| 1949 | — | — | 22 | #1,612 |
| 1948 | — | — | 13 | #2,214 |
| 1947 | — | — | 18 | #1,845 |
| 1946 | — | — | 23 | #1,504 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,922 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,625 |
| 1943 | — | — | 14 | #2,067 |
| 1942 | — | — | 19 | #1,678 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,817 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,314 |
| 1939 | — | — | 20 | #1,530 |
| 1938 | — | — | 24 | #1,396 |
| 1937 | — | — | 27 | #1,312 |
| 1936 | — | — | 26 | #1,323 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,486 |
| 1934 | — | — | 34 | #1,148 |
| 1933 | — | — | 33 | #1,157 |
| 1932 | — | — | 34 | #1,173 |
| 1931 | — | — | 35 | #1,168 |
| 1930 | — | — | 34 | #1,232 |
| 1929 | — | — | 46 | #1,005 |
| 1928 | — | — | 40 | #1,123 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,560 | 46 | #1,039 |
| 1926 | — | — | 48 | #1,007 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,935 | 46 | #1,020 |
| 1924 | — | — | 47 | #1,043 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,687 | 67 | #832 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,976 | 45 | #1,056 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,816 | 71 | #812 |
| 1920 | — | — | 71 | #801 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,507 | 66 | #808 |
| 1918 | — | — | 55 | #900 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,328 | 66 | #779 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,113 | 58 | #820 |
| 1915 | — | — | 54 | #843 |
| 1914 | — | — | 35 | #947 |
| 1913 | — | — | 30 | #912 |
| 1912 | — | — | 28 | #852 |
| 1911 | — | — | 8 | #1,377 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,576 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,149 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,106 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,087 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #920 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,215 | 6 | #1,223 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #1,058 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,492 |
| 1896 | — | — | 12 | #671 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,246 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,098 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).