Virgie
Virgie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 184th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918566 births
- Best rank
- #184in 1904
- Since 1880
- 22,468people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,800 girls have been named Virgie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 566 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 566 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 668 boys have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Virgie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 783 | |
| 1890s | 1,811 | |
| 1900s | 2,466 | |
| 1910s | 4,306 | |
| 1920s | 4,851 | |
| 1930s | 3,214 | |
| 1940s | 2,133 | |
| 1950s | 1,253 | |
| 1960s | 582 | |
| 1970s | 229 | |
| 1980s | 118 | |
| 1990s | 44 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Virgie was the 266th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Virgie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verdiepeak 1918
- Essiepeak 1921
- Omapeak 1916
- Estapeak 1920
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Ednapeak 1918
- Loviepeak 1919
- Vestapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.