MEANING & HISTORY
What does Virgil Rey mean?
Virgil Rey is an independently recorded complete given-name form. Virgil: From the Roman family name Vergilius.
Rey: King. Each component has its own name history, explained separately in the linked accounts. Their placement together does not create a new ancient phrase or establish why a particular family combined them.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
1
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗The parts of this recorded form
These parts have their own entries. Their separate histories do not automatically create a single combined meaning.
THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Virgil Rey in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
VIRGIL REY JR.CSV record 16,097 (header counted as record 1)
- Displayed form
- Virgil Rey
1 matching source record included an explicit generational suffix; that suffix is omitted from this name entry.
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Virgil Rey in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Virgil Rey
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Virgie·Familiar form of Virginia
- Virgil♂From the Roman family name Vergilius
- Virgilia·Feminine form in the Roman Vergilius name family
- Virgilio♂From the Roman family name Vergilius
- Virginia♀Feminine form of the Roman name Virginius
- Virginio·Masculine form in the Virginia and Virginius family
- Godfrey♂God and peace
- Vickey♀Variant of Vicky, a familiar form of Victoria
What rhymes with Virgil Rey?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Virgil Rey further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary: Virgil (opens in a new tab)
Name formation and linguistic history; consulted existing imported etymology.
- Wiktionary: Rey (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.