Virgil

Where Virgil comes from

From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.
— Wiktionary's entry for Virgil
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #163 among boys — 81 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1907
    Peak, #93
    276 babies named Virgil — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Virgil Abloh born
    American fashion designer
  4. 1991
    Virgil van Dijk born
    Dutch association football player
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,033.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Virgil van Dijk · Dutch association football player, born 1991
  • Virgil Abloh · American fashion designer, 1980–2021
  • Virgil Widrich · Austrian director and scriptwriter, born 1967
  • Virgil Thomson · American composer and critic, 1896–1989
  • Virgil Misidjan · Dutch-Surinamese association football player, born 1993

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.