Wirgiliusz
From Latin virga, "staff" or "wand". Only about 82 men in Poland carry it, and no boys were given it last year, so most people here will never meet one.
Wirgiliusz Pronunciation
Wirgiliusz is pronounced veer-GEEL-yoosh (/virˈgiljuʂ/).
What Wirgiliusz means
Where Wirgiliusz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Wirgiliusz comes from the Latin Virgilius, and behind it stands the Latin word virga, a staff or wand. In Polish that image narrows to gałązka latorośli, the young shoot of a vine. So the name starts with something green and climbing.
The most famous carrier of the Roman name was Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid. Medieval readers turned him into a figure of wisdom, even a magician, and the spelling drifted from Vergilius toward Virgilius under the pull of virga. The root kept its plain sense: a rod, a switch, a slender branch.
Wirgiliusz has a feminine variant, Wirgilia. In a Polish class register the name looks formal, a little grand. Read it back to the root and it turns modest. A twig of a vine.
When Wirgiliusz celebrates name day
Wirgiliusz appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 27 November.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Wirgiliusz
1 in 260319 men in Poland is named Wirgiliusz. 82 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3926 among male names.
Wirgiliusz as a middle name
Wirgiliusz is a first name for 82 men in Poland and a middle name for another 104, a 44/56 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 700th, between Serwacy (104) and Antoniusz (103).
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#698 Jeremy104
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#699 Serwacy104
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#700 Wirgiliusz104
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#701 Antoniusz103
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#702 Konstantyn103