girls:
56 births since 1902
#5660 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1886
#2850 (38th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1886
#5777 (25th percentile)
The name Vergil is the #5,777 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,995 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 25.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,850 (37.8% percentile) for all time with 1,939 births since 1886. For girls, it ranks #5,660 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1902.
Vergil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for boys and 1902 for girls). Birth data for Vergil is available in 96 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Vergil has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Vergil reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 12.4% percentile (ranked #469) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 93 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Vergil ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 8.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vergil reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #573) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 18 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vergil".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vergil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.7% confident that Vergil is pronounced as VER-juhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VER-jihl, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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