Vigilius

surname · Danish · Latin script

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

Vigilius is a surname, most frequently recorded in Peru. It appears chiefly in Danish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name.

rarermore common
  • PEPeru1 in 217K◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 313K
  • DODominican Republic1 in 659K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈693 ●

across 3 countries

Sources
34 ●

4.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 313K ◐

Brazil

Spellings & scripts●

VigilioLatin · Portuguese●7.9K records

Locally spelled Vigilio in BR Brazil, PE Peru, US United States and 8 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Vigilius is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru1,0394.1K rec.——Vigilio34
BR Brazil676△47 rec.1 in 313K858Vigilio17
US United States167185 rec.—listedVigilio25
MX Mexico88120 rec.——Vigilio16
AR Argentina8693 rec.—3Vigilio15
PH Philippines4441 rec.—listedVigilio6
ES Spain1517 rec.—6Vigilio6
DO Dominican Republic1518 rec.——Vigilio2
IT Italy1310 rec.—listedVigilio5
VE Venezuela1214 rec.——Vigilio4
SE Sweden11—1 in 928K11——
CO Colombia97 rec.——Vigilio7

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Languages●

  • Danish5455%
  • English2828%
  • German66%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Danish5455%
English2828%
German66%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vigilius is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 records spelled Vigilius2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Vigile

  • Latvian given name1 records spelled Vigilius3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Virgilijs, Virģilijs

15 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●

Vigilius is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Hl., f um 400, Rei. Trient (< lat. vigil "wachsam"), Vig(i)l, Fiegl

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In English, antipope

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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●

19201940196019802000Niels Ove Vigilius, b. 1931Magnus Vigilius, b. 1974Christian Holst Vigilius, b. 1998

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Vigilius
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#29,208
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11#34,605
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—6#24,300
VA Vatican CityHoly See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names)—1#79

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 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vigilius?
We estimate roughly 693 people bear Vigilius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Vigilius have the most bearers?
Vigilius is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled vigilio.
What does the name Vigilius mean?
Recorded meaning: from Lat. vigil 'watchful'; saint's name
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 2026-09-12.

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