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Origin: Latin

Meaning: Strength

Whether there are paragons of it or patience is it, Virtue is also a girl's name of Latin origin. Meaning "strength," the original use of the name Virtue was to refer to the strength it took to resist sin. The earliest mention of Virtue in English, incidentally as a surname, appears sometime after the Norman Conquest, possibly in the early 13th century. With Virtue, baby can be the hybrid paragon of patience and strength.