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Virgilio

#7,644 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly rod, wand, through Virgilius

Virgilio has been given to 1,487 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #7,644 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Virgilio, 2025

1 in 301,000

Virgilio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Virgilio: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly rod, wand, through Virgilius

Spanish

What Virgilio means

Virgilio belongs to the name family reached through Virgilio → Virgilius. Its meaning is “rod, wand”.

Origin, language, and formation

Virgilio is used in Italian, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Virgilio comes through Latin Virgilius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virgil and Virgilius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Virgilio is pronounced /virˈd͡ʒi.ljo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,487 boys were recorded with the name Virgilio between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,377 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,009 in 2020 to #7,644 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,563 in 2015 to #7,644 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Virgilio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,644
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Virgilio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Virgilio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Virgilios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Virgilio was born before 1980 — so the typical Virgilio is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
16.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,266
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Choose a decade

1990s — 16.5% of all recorded uses (245).

Is Virgilio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,480
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+365
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,919
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.2%
Peak was 1971 (39)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,377
1971

Spellings of Virgilio

Virgilio is not the most common spelling — Virgil is, with 95.4% against Virgilio's 2.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Virgilio is used

Across 1910–2025, Virgilio was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 146,456 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Virgilio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Virgilio around the world

Where Virgilio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1921–1996
    #3,023
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1961–1970
    #540
    in 1970

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Virgilio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,644
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 365
Best rank ever
#1,377
1971
Peak year
1971
39 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,487
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Virgilio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Virgilio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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