Given name & surname
Virtue
“having moral excellence, chastity, and goodness”
Virtue is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “having moral excellence, chastity, and goodness.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “having moral excellence, chastity, and goodness.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Virtue through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 0 boys · 51 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,822 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,822 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,150 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Virtue’s family of names
Virtue has a related form in Vertu. Virtue has a related form in Vertue. Virtue has a related form in Virtu.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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