Virgilio

given name · Latin script

Meaning: From Latin Vergilius/Virgilius, name of a Roman gens; probably from uergo 'to incline, bend'

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/birçiljo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Virgilio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 79th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 876(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.8K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈120,000 people, est.

Sources
272 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 876 (inferred from the name graph)

Philippines, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Latin Vergilius/Virgilius, name of a Roman gens; probably from uergo 'to incline, bend'

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Virgilio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Virgilio is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#312≈120,000 est.≈1 in 876—Virgilio100
ID Indonesia—≈21,000 est.≈1 in 13K—Virgilio21
PE Peru#625≈8,600 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Virgilio58
VE Venezuela#4837,2941 in 3.9K7.3KVirgilio44
BR Brazil—7,2391 in 29K9.8KVirgilio119
DO Dominican Republic#79≈6,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Virgilio45
HN Honduras#150≈4,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Virgilio29
PY Paraguay#278≈3,800 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Virgilio30

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Virgilio is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Virgílio

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Vírgilio, Virgílio

  • Polish given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Russia, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Virgil, Вергилий, Vergil, Вирджил, Верджил

  • Swedish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Peru, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Virgílio

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Spain, Philippines

    Also written Virgílio

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan, Peru, Philippines

    Also written Virgílio

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Virgilio is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Virgil

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, lat. Vergilius; forse connesso a vergere/virga. Nome reso celebre dal poeta Virgilio e da due santi vescovi.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, In latino è Vergiliua; i Romani chiamavano Vergiliae la costellazione più nota sotto il nome greco di Plejadi. È noto che Virgilio fu onorato nel medio evo come il n mar di tutto il senno u e come inconsapevole profeta di Cristo. Due Santi, uno vescovo di Arles, sec. VII; 5 marzo; e l'altro vescovo di Salisburgo, sec. VIII; 27 novembre. Gogn. Virgili, -1io.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Virgilius

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • [Ignoto]

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Virgilio Giotti, b. 1885Virgilio Riento, b. 1889Virgilio Marchi, b. 1895Virgilio Levratto, b. 1904Virgilio Teixeira, b. 1917Antonio Virgilio Savona, b. 1919Virgilio Barco Vargas, b. 1921Virgilio Noè, b. 1922Virgilio Godoy, b. 1934Virgílio do Carmo da Silva, b. 1967

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Virgilio,Hi Virgilio, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 68 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Virgilio
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—9.8K#2,210
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—7.3K#193
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20227.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.2K#2,119
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202031—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22#2,119

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Virgilio mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin Vergilius/Virgilius, name of a Roman gens; probably from uergo 'to incline, bend' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
What are other forms of the name Virgilio?
In the etymology graph, Virgil, Vergil and Virgiliu are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Virgilio?
A machine transcription gives /birçiljo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Virgilio a male or female name?
Virgilio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Virgilio have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Virgilio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled virgilio.
How common is the name Virgilio?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 7,294 people named Virgilio, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
How common is Virgilio compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Virgilio is the 312th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Virgilio” — the 312th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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