Vergil

Where Vergil comes from

The dictionaries list Vergil as a given name — a male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Peak, #641
    12 babies named Vergil — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1904
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil.
Namesakes

No widely known Vergil turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.