Vigilius
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/viɡilius/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Vigilius is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 391K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.9Mfew recordsas Vigile
- ARArgentina1 in 2.7Mas Vigile
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vigilius itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 391K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36 named Vigile, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Vigile in FR France, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Vigilius is read
(measured from records)Vigilius is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian45%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vigilius in Indonesian.
- English17%
antipope
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German9.4%
from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Hl., f um 400, Rei. Trient (< lat. vigil "wachsam"), Vig(i)l, Fiegl
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Danish8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Vigilius in Danish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vigilius 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | 1 | Vigile | 40 |
| BR Brazil | 24as Vigile | 1 in 8.8M | 24 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 17as Vigile | 1 in 2.7M | 17 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 27M | listed | Vigile | 10 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Vigilius of Trentb. 365ITbishop, martyr and saint
- Vigilius Eriksenb. 1722DKDanish painter (1722-1782)
- Vigilius Kranicherb. 1722ATabbot of Stams monastery
- VigiliusITpope
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)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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Vigilius mean, and where does it come from?
- from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Vigilius?
- In Indonesian /viɡilius/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Vigilius a male or female name?
- Vigilius 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 Vigilius have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 people named Vigile in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vigilius most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vigilius is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 391 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vigilius?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 15 people named Vigilius, about 1 in 391 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vigilius?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vigiliusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Vigilius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.