Virgil
A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning flourishing, virile.
Virgil by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Virgil. In the US, 96 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 1,830 babies in 1921, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Virgil. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean good luck
Like Virgil, each of these has good luck in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Chancefortune, luck; occupational name1,359 in the US (2017)
- 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)
- Aymanblessed, fortunate, auspicious203 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shivauspicious; associated with the Hindu deity Shiva35 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Virgil
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