Wirgilia
About seven women in Poland carry this name, so meeting one would stay with you. It is the Latin feminine of Wirgiliusz, tied to the sense of a rod or young vine shoot.
Wirgilia Pronunciation
Wirgilia is pronounced veer-GEEL-yah (/virˈgilja/).
What Wirgilia means
Where Wirgilia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wirgilia comes from Latin, the feminine form standing beside the masculine Wirgiliusz. Both go back to the Roman family name Vergilius, carried most famously by the poet Publius Vergilius Maro, the Virgil who wrote the Aeneid. Medieval readers turned him into a sage, and Dante made him a guide.
The short meaning fixed to the name is "staff, rod," in Polish gałązka latorośli, a young shoot of the vine. That reading links the name to Latin virga, a rod or slender twig. A twig grows. The Romans argued about where Vergilius truly came from, so the vine-shoot sense is best told as a later association rather than a proven origin.
In a Polish class register, Wirgilia sits rare among the Annas and Katarzynas. Its name-day shares the calendar with the masculine twin, Wirgiliusz. Whoever carries it holds a rod that is also a green shoot, gałązka latorośli.
When Wirgilia celebrates name day
Wirgilia appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 5 March.
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 Wirgilia
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Wirgilia. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #21817 among female names.
Wirgilia as a middle name
Wirgilia is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3890th, between Wierosława (5) and Więczysława (5).
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#3888 Wiarosława5
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#3889 Wierosława5
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#3890 Wirgilia5
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#3891 Więczysława5
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#3892 Yaffa5