Virgle
Masculine
Virgle is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,196 boys against 33 girls since 1880.
Virgle drops the vowel that made the name a poet's. Take the i out of the middle of Virgil and the classical name goes with it: what remains reads as an American surname, or as nothing in particular, and nobody meeting it would think of Rome.
How old is the name Virgle?
Virgle first appears in US birth records in 1886 — 139 years ago. The typical Virgle alive today was born around 1928, making them about 97 years old. About 500 people named Virgle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Virgle most popular?
Virgle peaked in 1924, reaching #677 nationally. See the whole 1924 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Vergilius to Virgle
The story of Virgle
The poet's name was not spelled with an i. Every ancient source that matters writes it with an e — Vergilius — and the i is a medieval alteration, probably encouraged by association with the Latin words for a maiden and for a wand, both of which attracted stories about him as a magician in the Middle Ages. Classical scholars have been using the e-spelling for a century and a half for exactly this reason, and it remains standard in academic writing, while the world outside carries on with the medieval version. So a name that looks like the most solidly classical thing a person could be called is in fact carrying a mistake made about a thousand years after the man died.
Meaningscholars disagree
from a Roman family name of uncertain sense
The poet's family name has no agreed derivation. The various explanations offered depend on a spelling the family did not use, which is the difficulty with all of them.
How the name formed
- Vergilius
- Virgil
- Virgle
Pronouncing Virgle
VUR-gul
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The ending is a syllabic l with no vowel of its own, which is exactly what the missing letter is recording.
Nicknames for Virgle
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1886
- Most boys named
- 192492 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #677reached in 1924
- Change vs 1978
- −16.7%5 in 1984, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Virgles among us
people named Virgle are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Virgle sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling writes down what the fuller form actually sounds like.
- It is short, plain and easy to say on first meeting.
- It is genuinely rare with no strong association attached to this form.
- Virgil is the standard spelling and this one gets corrected constantly.
- The spelling is recorded for a few girls, but nearly every child with it is a boy.
- The generation that used it is now very old.
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Frequently asked
- How many Virgles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Virgle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Virgle in 2025?
- Virgle is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Virgle with classmates?
- Virgle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More V names
The most-given names starting with V, all years combined.
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