as a Last Name
- 1,164
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Virtue
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English, Old French vertu ‘moral worth’; ‘goodness’ (Latin virtus ‘manliness’, ‘valor’, ‘worth’). This may have been bestowed on a good or pious person, it may alternatively have been a sarcastic nickname for a prig, or it may have been borne by someone who had played the part of Virtue in a medieval mystery play.
| 20,569th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,164
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Virtue per capita
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