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Baby name
Virgil
Boy
Origin of the name
Virgil comes from the Latin Vergilius, the name of the Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid.
Classic name
72,009births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 98rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Virgil are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Virgil is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Virgil is most common in West Virginia (3.7 times), South Dakota (3.6) and Kansas (3.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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