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Virginia

Meaning not yet sourced

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 19,144 babies; 572 in 2025

CommonRare
Rank 2015: #523, 2016: #514, 2017: #513, 2018: #536, 2019: #532, 2020: #581, 2021: #543, 2022: #540, 2023: #559, 2024: #506, 2025: #5251 in 2,810 girls in the US, 2025#525 · steady · was #523 in 2015
CommonRare
Rank 2015: #2,195, 2016: #3,214, 2017: #3,583, 2018: #2,499, 2019: #2,869, 2020: #2,843, 2021: #2,942, 2022: #2,488, 2023: #5,688, 2024: #2,772, 2025: #2,7881 in 28,142 girls in E&W, 2025#2,788 · falling · was #2,195 in 2015

Girl’s name · Latin · /vəˈd͡ʒɪn.jə/

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What Virginia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Virginia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1922, with 19,144 babies; 572 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Virginia?

US 2025
#525
572 babies
▼ 19 vs 2024
England & Wales 2025
#2788
9 babies
▼ 16 vs 2024
Scotland
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Not listed

US: Steady: #523 in 2015, #525 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #2195 in 2015.

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US, 1880–2025England & Wales, 1996–2025Babies per 1,000 girls born. Dot: biggest US share (1922)

Biggest US share so far: 1922, when 19,144 girls got the name (#7 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

  • About 1 in 2,810 baby girls in the US in 2025
  • About 1 in 28,142 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls), VA (1.66 per 1,000 girls), SC (1.15 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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FewerMore · grey: under 5 babies, not listed

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Virginia is #525 in the US and #2788 in England & Wales (2025).

Rank 2025BabiesHow commonRank 2015
US#5255721 in 2,810#523
England & Wales#278891 in 28,142#2195
Scotland––––

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Virginia were girls.

GirlsBoys
US 20255720
England & Wales 202590
US all years since 1880652,9592,009
England & Wales since 19963040

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

UK/vəˈd͡ʒɪn.jə/
US/vɚˈd͡ʒɪn.jə/

IPA from Wiktionary.

Nicknames

  • Ginny
  • Ginger

Listed on Wiktionary under “pet forms”.

If you like Virginia

Girls

  • Laura#379“laurel tree”
  • Paula#853Editor’s note Up from #889 in 2015 to #853 in 2025 in the US
  • Barbara#968“strange, foreign”
  • Gloria#654“glory”
  • Amanda#493“to love”
  • Joanna#306“God is gracious”

For a brother

  • Lawrence#518Editor’s note Down from #499 in 2015 to #518 in 2025 in the US
  • Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025
  • Martin#335“of or like Mars”
  • Paul#262“small”
  • Justin#233“just”
  • Quinton#973“queen s town”

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Virginia’s. Rank is US 2025.

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