girls:
1.4k births since 1888
#4292 (25th percentile)
boys:
71.8k births since 1880
#389 (92nd percentile)
overall:
73.2k births since 1880
#847 (89th percentile)
The name Virgil is the #847 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73,207 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #389 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 71,763 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,292 (24.9% percentile) for all time with 1,444 births since 1888.
Virgil has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1888 for girls).
The name Virgil has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Virgil reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 82.3% percentile (ranked #98) with 1,608 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 1,740 births per million (ranked 64.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Virgil ranks #794 for boys (12.9% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 3.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Virgil reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #556) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 55 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Virgil".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Virgil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Virgil is pronounced as VER-juhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VER-jihl, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V ER1 JH AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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