Virginia
Virginia is ranked 510th among girls in 2024 (601 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- #510up 50 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6010.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 192219,144 births
- Best rank
- #6in 1921
- Since 1880
- 654,381people given the name
The story in the numbers
652,372 girls have been named Virginia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 19,144 births — 1.6% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 601 births in 2024, against 19,144 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 73 of them in the top 100 and 13 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,009 boys have also been given it, 0.31% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Virginia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,948 | |
| 1890s | 5,864 | |
| 1900s | 14,539 | |
| 1910s | 94,322 | |
| 1920s | 169,554 | |
| 1930s | 103,088 | |
| 1940s | 98,998 | |
| 1950s | 69,783 | |
| 1960s | 35,344 | |
| 1970s | 18,053 | |
| 1980s | 14,996 | |
| 1990s | 9,865 | |
| 2000s | 6,704 | |
| 2010s | 5,542 | |
| 2020s | 2,772 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Virginia was the 7th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1922 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Virginia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Marjoriepeak 1921
- Marianpeak 1924
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Marjorypeak 1921
- Margerypeak 1921
- Alenepeak 1920
- Juanitapeak 1924
- Lorinepeak 1922
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.