Virgil

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Virgil".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,444
Peak Births
57
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1888
Peak Percentile
8.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#282
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
71,763
Peak Births
1,830
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
82.3%
Current Percentile
12.9%
Peak Rank
#90
Current Rank
#794
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Virgil

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Virgil. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 85.0% confident that Virgil is pronounced as VER-juhl. The next most likely pronunciation is VER-jihl, at 15.0% confidence.

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VER-juhl (2 syllables)
Verified
85.0% confidence
V ER1 JH AH0 L
VER-jihl (2 syllables)
15.0% confidence
V ER1 JH IH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Virgil. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Virgil, please vote using the thumbs up button.

VER-dehl (2 syllables)
2 names 3.5k births
V ER1 D EH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

VER-guhl (2 syllables)
3 names 2.5k births
V ER1 G AH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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.