Virgel
The Story of Virgel
Virgel first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1896, with 8 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1920: 47 births, good for #1,004 nationwide. About 31% of every Virgel on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Virgel last appeared in the published SSA data in 1989, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
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About the name Virgel
Virgel is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1896 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Virgel's peak popularity came in 1920 when it ranked #1,004. Use the chart and map above to compare Virgel's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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