Virgia
Virgia is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 928th, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191942 births
- Best rank
- #928in 1895
- Since 1885
- 1,208people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,208 girls have been named Virgia in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 42 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 42 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Virgia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Virgia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vergiepeak 1919
- Eunapeak 1916
- Margrettpeak 1924
- Hazlepeak 1924
- Myrlepeak 1915
- Verdapeak 1918
- Vernapeak 1918
- Gerthapeak 1921
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.