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How popular is “Virgil” in the USA?

Number of people named “Virgil” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Virgil” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Virgil” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Virgil” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Virgil” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Virgil” by birth year

This chart shows how “Virgil” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 81 0.000402017 81 -100%
1881 65 0.000337333 65 -100%
1882 80 0.00036112 80 -100%
1883 70 0.000322661 70 -100%
1884 88 0.000361454 88 -100%
1885 82 0.000340455 82 -100%
1886 79 0.00030942 79 -100%
1887 77 0.000311247 77 -100%
1888 117 0.000390685 5 112 -91%
1889 93 0.000321859 93 -100%
1890 105 0.000348373 5 100 -90%
1891 133 0.000463943 10 123 -85%
1892 140 0.000418693 10 130 -86%
1893 119 0.000365903 119 -100%
1894 135 0.000398595 10 125 -85%
1895 152 0.000433024 6 146 -92%
1896 150 0.000419599 12 138 -84%
1897 169 0.000487092 10 159 -88%
1898 170 0.000445662 15 155 -82%
1899 166 0.000489338 12 154 -86%
1900 228 0.000506376 16 212 -86%
1901 169 0.000488705 11 158 -87%
1902 173 0.000447337 10 163 -88%
1903 188 0.000493179 15 173 -84%
1904 218 0.000540293 7 211 -94%
1905 241 0.000568501 15 226 -88%
1906 218 0.00050881 11 207 -90%
1907 289 0.000620985 13 276 -91%
1908 275 0.000562776 17 258 -88%
1909 264 0.000516408 14 250 -89%
1910 298 0.000504477 18 280 -88%
1911 369 0.000572734 14 355 -92%
1912 705 0.000713518 21 684 -94%
1913 846 0.000743991 27 819 -94%
1914 1075 0.000758996 27 1048 -95%
1915 1410 0.000769472 34 1376 -95%
1916 1540 0.000796105 44 1496 -94%
1917 1563 0.000778871 40 1523 -95%
1918 1752 0.00080696 45 1707 -95%
1919 1611 0.000763418 41 1570 -95%
1920 1768 0.000781387 57 1711 -94%
1921 1869 0.000800598 39 1830 -96%
1922 1826 0.000797674 36 1790 -96%
1923 1743 0.000757009 30 1713 -97%
1924 1663 0.000698267 36 1627 -96%
1925 1525 0.00065358 22 1503 -97%
1926 1608 0.000700377 32 1576 -96%
1927 1525 0.00065751 27 1498 -96%
1928 1444 0.000638673 39 1405 -95%
1929 1364 0.000622217 25 1339 -96%
1930 1402 0.000630598 31 1371 -96%
1931 1402 0.000666227 18 1384 -97%
1932 1244 0.000589213 16 1228 -97%
1933 1155 0.00057766 16 1139 -97%
1934 1144 0.000550843 16 1128 -97%
1935 1121 0.000536389 17 1104 -97%
1936 1043 0.000502027 9 1034 -98%
1937 982 0.000460888 12 970 -98%
1938 1078 0.000487215 10 1068 -98%
1939 953 0.000432505 16 937 -97%
1940 954 0.000414299 16 938 -97%
1941 937 0.00038458 14 923 -97%
1942 1012 0.000370449 9 1003 -98%
1943 1013 0.000358894 20 993 -96%
1944 941 0.000349804 13 928 -97%
1945 863 0.000325303 18 845 -96%
1946 899 0.00028135 18 881 -96%
1947 868 0.000240956 14 854 -97%
1948 815 0.00023606 21 794 -95%
1949 802 0.000230144 11 791 -97%
1950 799 0.000228067 13 786 -97%
1951 803 0.000217985 14 789 -97%
1952 801 0.0002109 15 786 -96%
1953 772 0.00020033 13 759 -97%
1954 750 0.000188409 7 743 -98%
1955 709 0.000176584 10 699 -97%
1956 720 0.000174629 11 709 -97%
1957 679 0.000161584 11 668 -97%
1958 708 0.000171267 12 696 -97%
1959 668 0.000160654 16 652 -95%
1960 696 0.000167557 9 687 -97%
1961 636 0.000153538 11 625 -97%
1962 562 0.000139268 7 555 -98%
1963 568 0.0001435 7 561 -98%
1964 555 0.000142761 8 547 -97%
1965 512 0.000141224 9 503 -96%
1966 458 0.000131774 458 -100%
1967 453 0.000133436 7 446 -97%
1968 447 0.000132311 5 442 -98%
1969 391 0.000112508 7 384 -96%
1970 408 0.000113129 408 -100%
1971 428 0.000124696 7 421 -97%
1972 372 0.000118358 6 366 -97%
1973 354 0.000117339 9 345 -95%
1974 312 0.000102632 312 -100%
1975 311 0.000103001 311 -100%
1976 273 0.000089971 8 265 -94%
1977 259 0.000081536 6 253 -95%
1978 235 0.000074042 7 228 -94%
1979 238 0.000071536 238 -100%
1980 209 0.000060676 6 203 -94%
1981 225 0.000065041 5 220 -96%
1982 227 0.00006471 227 -100%
1983 160 0.000046198 160 -100%
1984 180 0.000051594 180 -100%
1985 152 0.000042588 5 147 -93%
1986 179 0.000050322 179 -100%
1987 142 0.000039383 142 -100%
1988 142 0.00003843 142 -100%
1989 146 0.000037977 146 -100%
1990 159 0.000040228 159 -100%
1991 149 0.000038252 149 -100%
1992 112 0.000029157 112 -100%
1993 114 0.000030236 114 -100%
1994 85 0.000022864 85 -100%
1995 96 0.000026214 96 -100%
1996 88 0.000024128 88 -100%
1997 82 0.000022616 82 -100%
1998 102 0.000027731 102 -100%
1999 80 0.000021658 80 -100%
2000 66 0.000017461 66 -100%
2001 75 0.000020035 75 -100%
2002 71 0.000018993 71 -100%
2003 69 0.000018147 69 -100%
2004 75 0.000019629 75 -100%
2005 69 0.000017946 69 -100%
2006 69 0.000017441 69 -100%
2007 73 0.000018261 73 -100%
2008 54 0.000013738 54 -100%
2009 64 0.000016753 64 -100%
2010 80 0.000021647 80 -100%
2011 73 0.000019957 73 -100%
2012 50 0.000013671 50 -100%
2013 68 0.000018652 68 -100%
2014 75 0.000020235 75 -100%
2015 70 0.000018914 70 -100%
2016 88 0.000023987 88 -100%
2017 96 0.000026844 96 -100%
2018 73 0.000020763 73 -100%
2019 91 0.000026218 91 -100%
2020 85 0.000025445 85 -100%
2021 101 0.000029812 101 -100%
2022 81 0.000023942 81 -100%
2023 123 0.000037147 123 -100%
2024 114 0.00003425 114 -100%

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