Virgil is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Virgil is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Virgil. In the SmartGenius ranking, Virgil is #1,688 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 63,102 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Virgil. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Virgil is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Virgil for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Virgil is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Virgil is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #86 Virgil easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1907.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Virgil was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 80 babies were named Virgil in the USA in 2022, ranking it at #1,737 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2012, when it was only ranked #2,270 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 50 boys were named Virgil.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The V is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.3% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a V. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Virgil is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.3% of all boys' names start with a V, all other letters occur on average three times as often as the V. Nevertheless, individual boys' names with V are quite popular, the most common currently being Vincent.
If your name is Virgil and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Virgil, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Rocket
Goat
Igloo
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Virgil
Virgil
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
R
G
I
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
I
R
G
I
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Virgil sounds like this:
