Vergil
A unisex name of Latin origin, meaning flourishing or virile; a form of Virgil.
Babies a year
6
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Vergil by the numbers
Vergil was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 71 babies in 1920, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Virgil
Like Vergil, each of these traces back to Virgil: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Vergil. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Verniegreen; diminutive form
Other names that mean good luck
Like Vergil, each of these has good luck in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Florenceflourishing, in bloom1,924 in England and Wales (2025)
- Chancefortune, luck; occupational name1,359 in the US (2017)
- Nalasuccessful, graceful66 in England and Wales (2025)
- Boonegood, favorable; from a surname334 in the US (2017)
- Umarlong-lived, flourishing214 in England and Wales (2025)
- Antonworthy of praise; flourishing203 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Vergil
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